社会学哲学博士-人口统计学

人口统计学或人口研究一直是马里兰大学社会学系的研究生研究领域。重点一直放在社会人口统计学上，即对影响人口动态的社会因素的研究，尽管也以人口统计学的传统组成部分为基础：生育，迁移和死亡率。我们研究了为什么人们拥有的孩子数量众多，为什么迁移时迁移，迁移时死亡以及这种行为的后果。我们还研究了这些人口统计学过程与家庭动态（例如婚姻形成和解散）和劳动力活动之间的关系。人口结果的群体差异（例如，性别，种族和种族差异）是该研究领域中的重要考虑因素。我们的观点既是国家的（美国），也是国际的，包括发展中国家。
Demography, or the study of population, has been an area of graduate study within the University of Maryland's Department of Sociology for many years. The focus has been on social demography-that is, the study of social factors that are associated with population dynamics-though also with a grounding in the traditional components of demography: fertility, migration and mortality. We study why people have the number of children they have, migrate when they do, and die when they do-and the consequences of such behaviors. We also study how these demographic processes relate to family dynamics (such as marital formation and dissolution) and labor force activity. Group differences in population outcomes-for example, differences by gender, ethnicity, and race-are important considerations in this field of study. Our perspective is both national (United States) and international, including developing countries.