Lectures

The purpose of the course is to present to the students the modern scientific approaches through which the phenomena that contribute to the formation and evolution of a population and its various structures are analyzed, justified and evaluated. The causes of population formation, such as fertility, mortality and immigration, and their effects on modern societies and economies are analyzed in particular.

In particular, through attending the course students acquire:

Knowledge: Students acquire proven knowledge and understanding of topics in the fields of historical and social demography. They are able to utilize the proposed theories and concepts of social demography, the sources of demographic data, the tools of demography, the methods and techniques of demographic analysis and the socio-economic effects of demographic changes focusing on both rural and urban populations. populations.

Skills: At the end of the course students will have acquired skills that will allow them to understand a) the subject of social demography, as well as the different fields and disciplines that make it up, b) the main sources of primary data used in demographic analysis, demographic indicators and demographic methods and techniques.

Abilities: At the end of the course, students will be able to: a) analyze and manage certain aspects of the socio-economic effects resulting from demographic changes and the prospects for the development of the population in our country and globally , b) to delve into the most recent trends that are already different from those of the previous century and through which the main demographic challenges of the next decades emerge.

1. Promotion of free, creative and inductive thinking

2. Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information using the necessary technologies regarding the Greek and global population.

3. Work in an interdisciplinary environment.

4. Exercise criticism and self-criticism.

1. Conceptual Demarcation and Quantitative Data Extraction Sources.

2. Demographic Methods and measurements.

3. Population. Population Size. Distribution by gender. Pyramids of ages.

4. Indicators of Economic Activity. Social Characteristics of the Population.

5. The reproduction of the population.

6. Fertility and Fertility. Analysis methods. Determinants of Fertility.

7. The Fertility Transition. Fertility in Greece.

8. Marriage - Divorce. Analysis methods.

9. Mortality. Mortality Rates and Survival Tables. Causes of Death.

10. Determinants of the mortality levels of a population. Health Transition. Mortality in Greece.

11. Migrations. Methods of Analysis. Determinants of Migration.

12. Immigration in Greece.

13. The formation of the population of Greece during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Alongside the lectures, case studies are also examined, such as:

i. Access to secondary data sources and the use of electronic databases.

ii. Searching and coding the bibliography.

iii. The processing and analysis of specific quantitative-demographic data regarding the Greek and world population.

I. Elaboration and Presentation of Individual Work which counts for 25% of the final grade.

II. Written final exam with 75% participation in the final grade

1. Bongaarts, J. C., 1978, "A Framework for Analyzing the Proximate Determinants of Fertility", Population and Development Review, 4,1: 105-133

2. Hinde, A., 1998, Demographic Methods, Arnold, London

3. Kalogeraki, S., 2010, Introduction to Social Demography, Gutenberg, Athens

4. Papadakis, M. and K. Tsimpos, 2004, Demographic Analysis, Principles, Methods, Models, Stamoulis University, Athens

5. Preston, S. H., Heuviline, P. and M. Guillot, 2001, Demography. Measuring and Modeling Population Processes, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford

6. Tsaoussis, D., 1985, Social Demography, Gutenberg, Athens