A Demographer at the Cusp between Economics and Sociology: An Interview with (original) (raw)
Part I. On the History of Demography Q. You have been a prominent demographer and sociologist for many years. What do you consider yourself first, a demographer or a sociologist? A. I prefer to consider myself a demographer rather than a sociologist. That is because I and other demographers are interested in quantitative research, whereas many sociologists do only qualitative research. Q. What is demography? A. I would define demography as the study of populations, which would include the composition of existing populations and the study of the components of population change: natality, mortality, in-migration and out-migration. Q. From the start, demography has been a multidisciplinary field. Can you tell me more about the origin of demography as a science? A. There have been two principal founders of demography: John Graunt and Thomas Malthus. Graunt was a statistician in 17 th Century England. He invented the life table, a major tool in all demographic analysis. Malthus was an economist and an Anglican minister who became very concerned with the question of how population growth
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