Social demography notes

Although the literature on racial and ethnic patterns of segregation and locational attainment has yet to provide a complete accounting, it illustrates nicely how social demography approaches an explanation of social phenom- ena, employing both deductive and inductive strategies

Charles Hirschman and Stewart Tolnay (2005) identify three distinct areas within the current state of social demography: (1) data collection and descriptive interpretation; (2) theory development and model testing; and (3) contextual analysis

Data collection is a staple of social demography