Continuities in Sociological Human Ecology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Michael Micklin, Dudley L. Poston Jr.

      Pages 1-8

3. Conceptual and Theoretical Considerations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Human Ecology, Population, and Development

      • Amos H. Hawley

      Pages 11-25

   3. Human Ecology, Sociology, and Demography

      • Dudley L. Poston Jr., W. Parker Frisbie

      Pages 27-50

   4. The Ecological Complex

      • Michael Micklin, David F. Sly

      Pages 51-66

   5. Poets-Pacs-Ledd

      • Paul R. Eberts

      Pages 67-83

   6. An Ecological Theory of Organizational Structuring

      • Charles E. Bidwell, John D. Kasarda

      Pages 85-116

   7. Ecology’s Contribution to Cross-National Theory and Research

      • W. Parker Frisbie, Abdullah H. M. Al-Khalifah

      Pages 117-130

   8. The Human Ecology of Agriculture in the United States

      • Steve H. Murdock, Don E. Albrecht

      Pages 131-156

   9. Ecological Approaches in the Study of Racial and Ethnic Differentiation and Inequality

      • Mark A. Fossett, Cynthia M. Cready

      Pages 157-194

   10. Enhancing the Spatial Policy Framework with Ecological Analysis

       • David L. Brown

       Pages 195-213

4. Empirical Research

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215

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   2. Division of Labor and Morphological Response

      • W. Parker Frisbie, Abdullah H. M. Al-Khalifah

      Pages 217-239

   3. Determinants of the Division of Labor in China

      • Michael Xinxiang Mao

      Pages 241-250

   4. The Effects of Public and Private Sustenance Organizations on Population Redistribution in New York State

      • Thomas A. Hirschl, Dudley L. Poston Jr., W. Parker Frisbie

      Pages 251-267

   5. Toward an Integrated Ecological-Sociological Theory of Suburbanization

      • Sean-Shong Hwang, Steve H. Murdock

      Pages 269-282

   6. Spatial Segregation and Social Differentiation in China

      • Dudley L. Poston Jr., Michael Micklin, Jing Shu

      Pages 283-298

   7. An Ecological Investigation of Agricultural Patterns in the United States

      • Steve H. Murdock, Don E. Albrecht

      Pages 299-316

   8. Ecological and Structural Determinants of Declining Labor Force Participation of African-American Men

      • Mark A. Fossett, M. Therese Seibert, Cynthia M. Cready

      Pages 317-344

The completion of this volume would not have been possible without the generous and dedicated help of numerous people. The book had its genesis in a conference held at Cornell University in the fall of 1990 that was organized by Dudley Poston, Paul Eberts, and Michael Hannan, all professors at the time at Cornell. With the very generous financial assistance of David Call, then the dean of Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Poston, Eberts, and Hannan put together a two-day conference oflectures and papers by human ecologists from Cornell University and elsewhere. The conference focused on sociological human ecology and celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Amos Hawley's Human Ecology (Ronald Press 1950). Professor Hawley was the keynote speaker at the conference. Many of the authors of the chapters in this volume presented earlier versions at the Cornell conference in 1990. Cornell's Departments of Rural Sociology and Sociology also contrib­ uted financial assistance; however, without Dean Call's very generous support, the conference would not have been possible. A few months after the conference, Poston and Michael Micklin discussed the possibility of asking the various authors of the Cornell conference papers to revise them for publication in a volume on sociological human ecology. Many opted to do so, but others did not because of time and other kinds of commitments and constraints.

• Demographic change
• Demography
• Nation
• Segregation
• ecology
• ecosystem
• environment
• environmental protection
• sociology
• sustainability
• sustainable development

• Biobehavioral and Social Sciences, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA

  Michael Micklin

• Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

  Dudley L. Poston

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