The Population of the UK
Autor Danny Dorlingen Limba Engleză Electronic book text – 29 noi 2012
Written for undergraduate students across social science disciplines, this unique text presents a social geography of the UK which:
- Contains over 100 maps. These are drawn in proportion to the numbers of people being depicted and so represent the human geography of the UK in a fair way.
- Visualises quantitative evidence. The very latest statistics from numerous sources - including the 2010 election - reveal the many aspects of the underlying geographical structure of society in the UK.
- Relates geographies of identity to geographies of inequality, mortality, work, and settlement, and in a final chapter shows how the UK's population fits in to the world picture of who has most of what, and where.
A note on data:Much of the data comes from 2010 and 2011. However, because as yet only the age and sex data from the 2011 census has been released the book shows 2001 patterns where only census data can reveal it. As 2011 census data is released, Danny plans to update the maps on-line.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781446271735
ISBN-10: 1446271730
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 170 x 242 mm
Ediția:Second Edition
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications Ltd
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1446271730
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 170 x 242 mm
Ediția:Second Edition
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications Ltd
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
You
will
be
encouraged
to
build
your
own
alternative
theories
of
social
policy
and
human
geography.
For
that
is
what
Daniel
Dorling
has
done:
build
a
documented
story
that
questions
many
standard
interpretations
and
identifies
new
ways
of
seeing
the
world
Ludi Simpson
President of the British Society of Population Studies and Professor of Population Studies, The University of Manchester
Danny Dorling has already established himself as our leading human geographer - and a doughty fighter for a more just society. This book will provide readers with a powerful and new way of understanding the shape of their country, and how their country shapes them
Matthew Taylor
Chief Executive, RSA
Dorling has written an excellent book using statistics and maps to cast light on what it means to live in the UK today. This is engaging and thought provoking material for any reader, and especially for students
Hetan Shah
Executive Director, The Royal Statistical Society
This is a book demanding action in a number of ways. It is commendably rich in quantitative evidence, but the author claims that it is not purely objective: he sets out his interpretation of the data in the context of his own railing against inequalities. The evidence is a call to arms against inequality's human origins. We can do better, he says: just look at the abstentions in voting patterns. We can do better: which social policies would you pursue as an MP (or next time you vote for one)? We can do better: how will you use geographical data to help change people's minds?
The 2011 census results were being released as the book was being published. They provide plenty of scope for students to check out and update Dorling's social patterns of the UK. This is a book that encourages by example a do-it-yourself approach to data analysis in human geography, emphasising the analyst's own responsibility to display evidence clearly, to openly construct interpretations of data, and to focus on human responsibility for maintaining or changing those patterns.
Ludi Simpson
LSE Review of Books
Ludi Simpson
President of the British Society of Population Studies and Professor of Population Studies, The University of Manchester
Danny Dorling has already established himself as our leading human geographer - and a doughty fighter for a more just society. This book will provide readers with a powerful and new way of understanding the shape of their country, and how their country shapes them
Matthew Taylor
Chief Executive, RSA
Dorling has written an excellent book using statistics and maps to cast light on what it means to live in the UK today. This is engaging and thought provoking material for any reader, and especially for students
Hetan Shah
Executive Director, The Royal Statistical Society
This is a book demanding action in a number of ways. It is commendably rich in quantitative evidence, but the author claims that it is not purely objective: he sets out his interpretation of the data in the context of his own railing against inequalities. The evidence is a call to arms against inequality's human origins. We can do better, he says: just look at the abstentions in voting patterns. We can do better: which social policies would you pursue as an MP (or next time you vote for one)? We can do better: how will you use geographical data to help change people's minds?
The 2011 census results were being released as the book was being published. They provide plenty of scope for students to check out and update Dorling's social patterns of the UK. This is a book that encourages by example a do-it-yourself approach to data analysis in human geography, emphasising the analyst's own responsibility to display evidence clearly, to openly construct interpretations of data, and to focus on human responsibility for maintaining or changing those patterns.
Ludi Simpson
LSE Review of Books
Cuprins
Maps
Birth
Education
Identity
Politics
Inequality
Health
Work
Home
Abroad
Future
Fold-Out Map
Birth
Education
Identity
Politics
Inequality
Health
Work
Home
Abroad
Future
Fold-Out Map
Descriere
In
this
unique,
fully
revised,
full
colour
book,
Danny
Dorling
-
one
of
the
biggest
names
in
social
sciences
today
-
maps
and
explains
the
social
inequalities
of
the
UK.