Demography

Demography includes study of the basic processses of human population changes including: birth and fertility, migration, morbidity and mortality, population structure, and population change.

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History

Prehistory

Early prehistory including the Pliocene, early Pleistocene, early mid Pleistocene, late mid Pleistocene, and late Pleistocene can be connected. Middle prehistory including the 5th decamillennium BP, 4th decamillennium BP, 3rd decamillennium BP, and 2nd decamillennium BP can be connected. Late prehistory including the early 8th millennium BC, late 8th millennium BC, early 7th millennium BC, late 7th millennium BC, early 6th millennium BC, and late 6th millennium BC can be connected.

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Antiquity

The 5th millennium BC including the early 5th millennium BC, early mid 5th millennium BC, mid 5th millennium BC, late mid 5th millennium BC, and late 5th millennium BC can be connected. The 4th millennium BC including the early 4th millennium BC, early mid 4th millennium BC, mid 4th millennium BC, late mid 4th millennium BC, and late 4th millennium BC can be connected. The 3rd millennium BC including the early 3rd millennium BC, early mid 3rd millennium BC, mid 3rd millennium BC, late mid 3rd millennium BC, and late 3rd millennium BC can be connected. The 2nd millennium BC including the early 2nd millennium BC, early mid 2nd millennium BC, mid 2nd millennium BC, late mid 2nd millennium BC, and late 2nd millennium BC can be connected. The early 1st millennium BC including the 10th century BC, 9th century BC, 8th century BC, 7th century BC, and 6th century BC can be connected.

Classical and medieval history

Early classical history including the 5th millennium BC, 5th millennium BC, 3rd millennium BC, 2nd millennium BC, and early 1st millennium BC can be considered. Late classical history including the 1st century CE, 2nd century CE, 3rd century CE, 4th century CE, and 5th century CE can be connected. Early medieval history including the 10th century, 11th century, 12th century, 13th century, 14th century, and 15th century can be considered. Late medieval history including the 11th century, 12th century, 13th century, 14th century, and 15th century can be considered.

Modern history

It was not well studied in the 16th century, although I do not yet have details of the early 16th century, early mid 16th century, mid 16th century, late mid 16th century, or late 16th century.

The 17th century including the early 17th century, early mid 17th century, mid 17th century, late mid 17th century, and late 17th century can be connected.

In the 18th century it began to be studied. Events of the early 18th century, early mid 18th century, mid 18th century, late mid 18th century, and late 18th century can be considered.

It was developed in the 19th century including the early 19th century, early mid 19th century, mid 19th century, late mid 19th century, and late 19th century.

It has become especially developed in the 20th century, including the early 20th century, early-mid 20th century, mid 20th century, and late-mid 20th century.

Late 20th century

The early 1980s including 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, and 1985 can be connected. The late 1980s including 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, and 1990 can be connected. The early 1990s including 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, and 1995 can be connected. The late 1990s including 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000 can be connected.

Early 21st century

Developments of the early 2000s including 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 can be connected.

The late 2000s including 2006 are being considered.

2007 including the first quarter 2007, second quarter 2007, third quarter 2007 and fourth quarter 2007 can be connected.

2008 including the first quarter, second quarter, third quarter with July, August, and September and fourth quarter including October and November can be connected.

2009 including the first quarter 2009, second quarter 2009, third quarter 2009, and fourth quarter 2009 can be connected. 2010 including the first quarter 2010, second quarter 2010, third quarter 2010, and fourth quarter 2010 can be connected.

The early 2010s can be connected. 2011 can be connected. The first quarter 2011 can be connected. January 2011 including 2011 week 1, 2011 week 2, 2011 week 3, 2011 week 4, 2011 week 5, and 2011 week 6 can be connected. February 2011, and March 2011 can be connected. The second quarter 2011 including April 2011 and May 2011 can be connected. June 2011 including 2011 week 23, 2011 week 24, and 2011 week 25 can be connected. The third quarter 2011 including July 2011, August 2011, and September 2011 can be connected. The fourth quarter 2011 can be connected.

Its future including the near future with next month, next quarter, and next year, the middle future, and far future is obscure.

Sociology

Particular peoples provide examples. nations such as Burma, Ukraine, Colombia, South Africa, Argentina, Spain, Sudan, Tanzania, Poland, Kenya, Morocco, Algeria, Canada, Afghanistan, Uganda, and Nepal can be considered.

Western civilization including Italy can be considered. Anglic peoples including those of the United Kingdom and the United States are especially important. Latin peoples including those of France can be considered. Hispanic peoples including those of Mexico can be connected. Lusitanic peoples including those of Brazil can be connected. Germanic peoples including those of Germany can be connected. Northeast European peoples such as those of Russia can be connected.

Asiatic peoples such as those of South Korea can be considered. Middle Eastern peoples including those of Iran can be connected. Egyptcan be connected. Turkey can be connected. South Asian peoples such as those of India,Pakistan, and Bangladesh can be considered. Oriental peoples such as those of China and Japan can be considered. Southeast Asian peoples such as those of Thailand can be considered. Southeast Asian Mainland peoples including those of Vietnam can be connected. Peoples of the Southeast Asian Archipelagoes including Indonesia and the Philippines can be connected.

African peoples including those of Congo DR will also be useful. East African peoples including those of Ethiopia can be connected. West African peoples including those of Nigeria can be considered.

American Indian peoples found in Mexico are less directly useful. Middle American Indian peoples found in the Southwestern United States can be connected. South American Indian peoples found in Brazil can be connected. North American Indian peoples found in the United States can be connected. Eastern North American Indian peoples can be connected. Western North American Indian peoples can be connected.

Communities

Communities such as Tokyo, Seoul, Mexico City, and New York City provide examples of demography.

Social structure and change

Social change

Particular changes and movements including the industrial revolution can be connected. The Agricultural revolution can be connected. The agrarian revolution including bronze age movements, early iron age movements, late iron age movements, and modernization can be connected. The industrial revolution including the early industrial revolution, middle industrial revolution, and early industrial revolution can be connected.

Social change factors including institutional change, cultural change, demographic change, and natural change can be connected. Social change processes including innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be connected.

Social types

Industrial societies can be connected. Agrarian societies can be connected. Horticultural societies can be connected. Hunting and gathering societies can be connected.

Social structure

Community and regional structure can be connected. Class structure can be connected. Institutional structure can be connected. Cultural structure can be connected. Anthropological structure can be connected.

Institutions

Religion

Religion has some influence on the study of demography. Particular religions including Asiatic religion, pagan religion, and secularism can be connected. Abrahamic religion including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam can be connected.

Religious organization including highly structured, fragmented, and loosely structured organization can be connected. Religious practice can be connected. Religious belief can be connected.

Government

Particular governments including international goverment, national government, and local government can be connected. Government activity including state relations, administration, and succession can be connected. Government structure including goverment forms, heads of state, executive systems, legislative systems, judicial systems, and political parties and interest groups can be connected. Law including international law, Western law, Asiatic law, and tribal law can be connected.

Economics

Economic systems including economic system behavior, economic syatem types, networks, and firms can be connected. Industries including commercial and financial industries, communications industries, transportation industry, social and medical services, building and construction, and agriculture can be connected. Economic activities including consumption, distribution and exchange, and production can be connected.

Education

Schools including higher education, secondary education, and primary education can be connected. Educational organization including administration, faculty, students, and course material can be connected. Cultural institutions including performance venues, libraries, and museums can be considered. Teaching can be connected. Research can be connected.

Families

Particular families can be connected. Kinship can be connected. Parenting can be connected. Marriage can be connected.

Culture

Behavioral culture

Cultural events including holidays, disasters, gatherings, and other events can be connected. Recreation and entertainment including sports, games, theater, dance, and music can be connected. Occupations including service occupations, industrial occupations, communication occupations, transportation occupations, building related occupations, and food-related occupations can be connected. Customs including institutional customs, social interaction customs, dress and adornment customs, living and dwelling customs, and vital customs can be connected.

Conceptual culture including language and graphic arts can be connected. Philosophy including philosophical schools and doctrines, special topics, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, and logic can be connected. Applied science including applied social science, accounting, information science, medical science, navigation, enginnering science, and measurement can be connected. Mathematics including statistics, geometry, analysis, algebra, arithmetic, and social foundations can be connected. Literature including literary works, literary types and genres, literary forms, and oral tradition can be connected.

Material culture including miscellaneous artifacts, communications technology, transportation technology, clothing, foodstuffs, building technology, and industrial technology can be connected.

It is also connected to physical anthropology, human ecology, human geography, and particular groups. It is also connected to social foundations including social presentation, social interaction, social control, social group behavior, and group types.

It is also connected to personal studies. Biography can be connected. It depends somewhat on psychology including behavioral elements, mind, behavior patterns, developmental psychology, mental disorders, social psychology, and personality. The human body and body systems, body function, disease, and form. The human life cycle including gestation, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, senescence, and death is closely connected.

This is connected to science, though not directly to physics or chemistry. Astronomy including cosmology, galactic astronomy and stellar astronomy is mostly speculative, but solar system stronomy has some potential applications. Earth science including geology, the hydrosphere, atmospheric science, and physical geography can be connected. Indirect evidence of demography can be gained from geohistory, particularly fossils of the Cenozoic era.

There are better connections to biology. Molecular biology and cell biology are not as useful as organism biology involving habitat, tissues, organ systems, morphology, life cycle, and behavior. Systematics is useful, not so much for microbes, protists, plants, or fungi but for animals. Ecology including behavioral ecology, mostly population ecology, but also community ecology, system ecology, evolution, ecosystems, and biogeography is related. Biohistory has limited usefulness, but estimates of human population in the Cenozoic era have been made.