- Demography places greater emphasis on processes and change, whereas home departments place more emphasis on social organization, context, and/or structural characteristics.
- Demography is careful to define the population and, thus, who is “at risk” for various events. Home departments detail theoretical mechanisms, but often not the characteristics of the people at risk of experiencing those mechanisms.
- Demographic courses integrate the topics of population size, composition, spatial distribution, population change, and population health with the theories and scientific literatures of the home department.
Demography Dual-Title Graduate Program
Penn State University, University Park
