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Article Dans Une Revue Demographic Research Année : 2014

Quantifying paradigm change in demography

Jakub Bijak
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Eric Silverman
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Robert Franck
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Background: Demography is a uniquely empirical research area amongst the social sciences. We posit that the same principle of empiricism should be applied to studies of the population sciences as a discipline, contributing to greater self-awareness amongst its practitioners. Objective: The paper aims to include measurable data in the study of changes in selected demographic paradigms and perspectives. Methods: The presented analysis is descriptive and is based on a series of simple measures obtained from the free online tool Google Books Ngram Viewer, which includes frequencies of word groupings (n-grams) in different collections of books digitised by Google. Results: The tentative findings corroborate the shifts in the demographic paradigms identified in the literature -- from cross-sectional, through longitudinal, to event-history and multilevel approaches. Conclusions: These findings identify a promising area of enquiry into the development of demography as a social science discipline. We postulate that more detailed enquiries in this area in the future could lead to establishing History of Population Thought as a new sub-discipline within population sciences.
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hal-04146024 , version 1 (29-06-2023)

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Jakub Bijak, Daniel Courgeau, Eric Silverman, Robert Franck. Quantifying paradigm change in demography. Demographic Research, 2014, 30 (32), pp.911-924. ⟨10.4054/DemRes.2014.30.32⟩. ⟨hal-04146024⟩
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