M.A in Demography

Course Structure

Demography - Meaning significance, Techniques of Demographic Analysis, Relationship with other sciences.
Basic concepts of Demography - Population Pyramid, Density of Population sex ratio, Population growth and Population
Malthusian theory of population, Optimum theory of Population, Sociol cultural theories - Dumont's theory of social capillarity, L. Brento's
theory of increasing prosperity and pleasure, Henry George's theory of Intellectual development. Theory of Demographic
Indian census - 1991-2001
Size, Growth and Composition of population in India, Population education in India
Population and Economic development, Trends and Distribution of World population.
Population policies in India.
Population control measures in India.