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Population, the State, and National Grandeur: Demography as Political Science in Modern France

Population, the State, and National Grandeur: Demography as Political Science in Modern France

Rosental, Paul-André
Oris, Michel

Paperback

Series: Population, Famille Et Société / Population, Family, and Soc, Book 31

Literary CriticismGeneral MusicGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3034330812
ISBN13: 9783034330817
Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
Published: Dec 24 2018
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Only in France is demography essentially the population science: it is taught at school, newspapers feature the evolution of fertility rates in their headlines and the subject sparks ideological debates in the media. How did demography become a national identity issue?

The French exception is attributable to a political history that reached fulcrums during the Second World War under the racist Vichy regime and then after the Liberation, with the development of population policies and the creation of the French National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED). The book is the first to retrace its controversial genesis and analyze its ramifications for the following decades. It shows how theories, institutions and demographic policies developed simultaneously in France. Its reflection on the links between ideologies, science and the state offers a model that could be applied to the history of many other scientific disciplines.

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