Dennis Hodgson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594577 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennis Hodgson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennis |
| FAMILY NAME | Hodgson |
| SIGNATURE | HODGSON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fairfield University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
CharlesKennyThe Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious DiseaseScribner, 2021, 320 p., $28.00
Charles Kenny, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, begins his history of infectious disease with a two-century old quote from An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798): “Premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.” Malthus reasoned that the power of population was so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence that periodic outbreaks of “misery”—either war, pestilence, or famine—were inevit…
Tod G.HamiltonImmigration and the Remaking of Black AmericaNew York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2019. 314 p. $35.00 (paper)
Since 1965, when the Hart-Cellar Act eliminated the national origins quota system, Blacks from the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa have experienced an easier time migrating to the United States. The last three decades of the twentieth century saw significant immigrant flows from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and other English-speaking Caribbean nations. Since 2000, more than half of black immigrants have come from African countries. By 2…
GraceKao, KaraJoyner, and Kelly StamperBalistreri, The Company We Keep: Interracial Friendships and Romantic Relationships from Adolescence to Adulthood, Russell Sage Foundation, 2019. 208 p. $29.95 (…
One of the best measures of integration is the level of intermarriage. Among American newlyweds in 2015, 11 percent of Whites, 18 percent of Blacks, and 29 percent of Asians married someone from a different race (p. 96). Almost as good a measure of integration is the frequency of interracial friendship and dating relationships. What Kao, Joyner, and Balistreri have done is to use a unique data source, The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent…
Developmental Idealism, the International Population Movement, and the Transformation of Population Ideology in Kenya
The spread of developmental idealism's beliefs about how “modern” family practices help achieve a modern prosperous society did not happen spontaneously, especially in societies whose family systems bore little initial resemblance to the “modern” ideal. We examine how Kenya in the 1960s became the first sub-Saharan country to adopt a fertility reduction policy, even though Kenya's leaders and their Western advisers initially had very different po…
Demography: History Since 1900
Piers J. Hale Political Descent: Malthus, Mutualism, and the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England
Randall Hansen and Desmond King, Sterilized by the State: Eugenics, Race, and the Population Scare in Twentieth‐Century North America
Steven Philip Kramer, The Other Population Crisis: What Governments Can Do about Falling Birth Rates
R obert D. P utnam and D avid E. C ampbell ; American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us
Eric Kaufmann: Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
Abortion, Family Planning, and Population Policy: Prospects for the Common-Ground Approach
For the past several decades those engaged in shaping the Program of Action documents at international conferences on population have muted their voices when the topic of abortion has been raised. In a desire to side-step entanglement in a bitter debate over the morality of abortion, great care has been taken to define "family planning" in ways that explicitly exclude abortion. The "common-ground" approach to treating abortion can be summarized i…
Malthus'Essay on Populationand the American Debate over Slavery
Malthus published hisEssay on Populationin 1798 and for the next century, as the new discipline of political economy incorporated his thought into its central tenets, population theorizing took place largely within a Malthusian framework. A stark simplicity marks his argument, especially as presented in the succinct first edition of the essay. He presents the reader with two self-evident natural laws: 'that food is necessary to the existence of m…
Disciplining Statistics: Demography and Vital Statistics in France and England, 1830-1885
Feminists and Neo-Malthusians: Past and Present Alliances
This article examines a century of interactions between American feminists and American social movements seeking to influence population trends. The historical analysis focuses on relations between feminists and neo-Malthusians and attempts to determine when they are likely to enter into alliances. The two movements are found to be neither natural allies nor natural enemies. Sturdy alliances arise when both movements agree on certain ideological …
Population Policy and Women's Rights: Transforming Reproductive Choice
Human Rights, Women's Rights, and Reproductive Freedom: The Evolution of Ideas Controllers and the Feminist Critique The Elusive Woman Question in United States International Population Policy Population Policy and Women's Political Action in Three Developing Countries Women's Rights and Reproductive Choice: Rethinking the Connections Objective and Subjective Dimensions of the Right to Health Unnecessary Danger: Abortion and Women's Health in Dev…
Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America
Ideological currents and the interpretation of demographic trends: The case of Francis Amasa Walker
Late nineteenth-century influences on American population thought are highlighted by focusing on Francis Amasa Walker's theory of native American fertility decline. Malthusianism, Darwinism, and racism combined to produce a new biological Malthu-sianism that identified a population calamity more harmful than overpopulation-biological deterioration. The plausibility of Walker's theory is examined with respect to contemporary demographic theory and…
The Ideological Origins of the Population Association of America
The list of persons invited to the founding session of the Population Association of America in 1931 is used to define the field of population studies in the United States from 1900 to 1930. Four factions are identified: immigration restrictionists, eugenicists, birth controllers, and population scientists. The history and ideological orientation of each group is outlined. The period was characterized by dissension, as different ideological persp…
Benjamin Franklin on Population: From Policy to Theory
There is a riddle in Franklin's treatment of population. He maintained that the tendency of populations to expand until checked by the lack of subsistence was a cause of European miseries, yet be advocated rapid population growth for the American colonies. When his population theory is highlighted, he appears as a Malthusian pessimist; when his population values are highlighted, he appears as an ardent expansionist. The contradictory elements in …
Orthodoxy and Revisionism in American Demography
From the vantage point of the late 1980s, what passes for orthodoxy in American demography is a perspective founded on two basic assumptions: rapid population growth in non-industrial societies is a significant problem, and providing contraceptives to peasant couples can lower fertility prior to industrialization. The emergence of this perspective within American demography during the 1950s and the rise of revisionist views more recently are exam…
Demography as Social Science and Policy Science
Demography contains elements of both social science and policy-oriented science, and which of the two has been dominant in a given period has markedly affected the nature of theory and empirical analysis. In the United States a social scientific orientation characterized the work of demographers from the turn of the century, as they sought to explain fertility decline attendant on industrialization. Demographic transition theory, the culmination …
Population, Environment, and the Quality of Life
Feminists and Neo-Malthusians: Past and Present Alliances
This article examines a century of interactions between American feminists and American social movements seeking to influence population trends. The historical analysis focuses on relations between feminists and neo-Malthusians and attempts to determine when they are likely to enter into alliances. The two movements are found to be neither natural allies nor natural enemies. Sturdy alliances arise when both movements agree on certain ideological …
Demography as Social Science and Policy Science
Demography contains elements of both social science and policy-oriented science, and which of the two has been dominant in a given period has markedly affected the nature of theory and empirical analysis. In the United States a social scientific orientation characterized the work of demographers from the turn of the century, as they sought to explain fertility decline attendant on industrialization. Demographic transition theory, the culmination …
Orthodoxy and Revisionism in American Demography
From the vantage point of the late 1980s, what passes for orthodoxy in American demography is a perspective founded on two basic assumptions: rapid population growth in non-industrial societies is a significant problem, and providing contraceptives to peasant couples can lower fertility prior to industrialization. The emergence of this perspective within American demography during the 1950s and the rise of revisionist views more recently are exam…
The Ideological Origins of the Population Association of America
The list of persons invited to the founding session of the Population Association of America in 1931 is used to define the field of population studies in the United States from 1900 to 1930. Four factions are identified: immigration restrictionists, eugenicists, birth controllers, and population scientists. The history and ideological orientation of each group is outlined. The period was characterized by dissension, as different ideological persp…
Abortion, Family Planning, and Population Policy: Prospects for the Common-Ground Approach
For the past several decades those engaged in shaping the Program of Action documents at international conferences on population have muted their voices when the topic of abortion has been raised. In a desire to side-step entanglement in a bitter debate over the morality of abortion, great care has been taken to define "family planning" in ways that explicitly exclude abortion. The "common-ground" approach to treating abortion can be summarized i…
Malthus'Essay on Populationand the American Debate over Slavery
Malthus published hisEssay on Populationin 1798 and for the next century, as the new discipline of political economy incorporated his thought into its central tenets, population theorizing took place largely within a Malthusian framework. A stark simplicity marks his argument, especially as presented in the succinct first edition of the essay. He presents the reader with two self-evident natural laws: 'that food is necessary to the existence of m…
Disciplining Statistics: Demography and Vital Statistics in France and England, 1830-1885
Benjamin Franklin on Population: From Policy to Theory
There is a riddle in Franklin's treatment of population. He maintained that the tendency of populations to expand until checked by the lack of subsistence was a cause of European miseries, yet be advocated rapid population growth for the American colonies. When his population theory is highlighted, he appears as a Malthusian pessimist; when his population values are highlighted, he appears as an ardent expansionist. The contradictory elements in …
Population, Environment, and the Quality of Life
Demography as Social Science and Policy Science
Demography contains elements of both social science and policy-oriented science, and which of the two has been dominant in a given period has markedly affected the nature of theory and empirical analysis. In the United States a social scientific orientation characterized the work of demographers from the turn of the century, as they sought to explain fertility decline attendant on industrialization. Demographic transition theory, the culmination …
Orthodoxy and Revisionism in American Demography
From the vantage point of the late 1980s, what passes for orthodoxy in American demography is a perspective founded on two basic assumptions: rapid population growth in non-industrial societies is a significant problem, and providing contraceptives to peasant couples can lower fertility prior to industrialization. The emergence of this perspective within American demography during the 1950s and the rise of revisionist views more recently are exam…
The Ideological Origins of the Population Association of America
The list of persons invited to the founding session of the Population Association of America in 1931 is used to define the field of population studies in the United States from 1900 to 1930. Four factions are identified: immigration restrictionists, eugenicists, birth controllers, and population scientists. The history and ideological orientation of each group is outlined. The period was characterized by dissension, as different ideological persp…
Benjamin Franklin on Population: From Policy to Theory
There is a riddle in Franklin's treatment of population. He maintained that the tendency of populations to expand until checked by the lack of subsistence was a cause of European miseries, yet be advocated rapid population growth for the American colonies. When his population theory is highlighted, he appears as a Malthusian pessimist; when his population values are highlighted, he appears as an ardent expansionist. The contradictory elements in …
Ideological currents and the interpretation of demographic trends: The case of Francis Amasa Walker
Late nineteenth-century influences on American population thought are highlighted by focusing on Francis Amasa Walker's theory of native American fertility decline. Malthusianism, Darwinism, and racism combined to produce a new biological Malthu-sianism that identified a population calamity more harmful than overpopulation-biological deterioration. The plausibility of Walker's theory is examined with respect to contemporary demographic theory and…
Population Policy and Women's Rights: Transforming Reproductive Choice
Human Rights, Women's Rights, and Reproductive Freedom: The Evolution of Ideas Controllers and the Feminist Critique The Elusive Woman Question in United States International Population Policy Population Policy and Women's Political Action in Three Developing Countries Women's Rights and Reproductive Choice: Rethinking the Connections Objective and Subjective Dimensions of the Right to Health Unnecessary Danger: Abortion and Women's Health in Dev…
Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America
Feminists and Neo-Malthusians: Past and Present Alliances
This article examines a century of interactions between American feminists and American social movements seeking to influence population trends. The historical analysis focuses on relations between feminists and neo-Malthusians and attempts to determine when they are likely to enter into alliances. The two movements are found to be neither natural allies nor natural enemies. Sturdy alliances arise when both movements agree on certain ideological …
Disciplining Statistics: Demography and Vital Statistics in France and England, 1830-1885
Abortion, Family Planning, and Population Policy: Prospects for the Common-Ground Approach
For the past several decades those engaged in shaping the Program of Action documents at international conferences on population have muted their voices when the topic of abortion has been raised. In a desire to side-step entanglement in a bitter debate over the morality of abortion, great care has been taken to define "family planning" in ways that explicitly exclude abortion. The "common-ground" approach to treating abortion can be summarized i…
Malthus'Essay on Populationand the American Debate over Slavery
Malthus published hisEssay on Populationin 1798 and for the next century, as the new discipline of political economy incorporated his thought into its central tenets, population theorizing took place largely within a Malthusian framework. A stark simplicity marks his argument, especially as presented in the succinct first edition of the essay. He presents the reader with two self-evident natural laws: 'that food is necessary to the existence of m…
R obert D. P utnam and D avid E. C ampbell ; American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us
Eric Kaufmann: Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
Randall Hansen and Desmond King, Sterilized by the State: Eugenics, Race, and the Population Scare in Twentieth‐Century North America
Steven Philip Kramer, The Other Population Crisis: What Governments Can Do about Falling Birth Rates
Demography: History Since 1900
Piers J. Hale Political Descent: Malthus, Mutualism, and the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England
Developmental Idealism, the International Population Movement, and the Transformation of Population Ideology in Kenya
The spread of developmental idealism's beliefs about how “modern” family practices help achieve a modern prosperous society did not happen spontaneously, especially in societies whose family systems bore little initial resemblance to the “modern” ideal. We examine how Kenya in the 1960s became the first sub-Saharan country to adopt a fertility reduction policy, even though Kenya's leaders and their Western advisers initially had very different po…
Tod G.HamiltonImmigration and the Remaking of Black AmericaNew York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2019. 314 p. $35.00 (paper)
Since 1965, when the Hart-Cellar Act eliminated the national origins quota system, Blacks from the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa have experienced an easier time migrating to the United States. The last three decades of the twentieth century saw significant immigrant flows from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and other English-speaking Caribbean nations. Since 2000, more than half of black immigrants have come from African countries. By 2…
GraceKao, KaraJoyner, and Kelly StamperBalistreri, The Company We Keep: Interracial Friendships and Romantic Relationships from Adolescence to Adulthood, Russell Sage Foundation, 2019. 208 p. $29.95 (…
One of the best measures of integration is the level of intermarriage. Among American newlyweds in 2015, 11 percent of Whites, 18 percent of Blacks, and 29 percent of Asians married someone from a different race (p. 96). Almost as good a measure of integration is the frequency of interracial friendship and dating relationships. What Kao, Joyner, and Balistreri have done is to use a unique data source, The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent…
CharlesKennyThe Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious DiseaseScribner, 2021, 320 p., $28.00
Charles Kenny, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, begins his history of infectious disease with a two-century old quote from An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798): “Premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.” Malthus reasoned that the power of population was so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence that periodic outbreaks of “misery”—either war, pestilence, or famine—were inevit…
Sociology (21 works) · Demography (19 works) · Political science (17 works) · Population (16 works) · Law (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · History (9 works) · Demography (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Politics (6 works)