Current Readings
for Demography 200 / Sociology 220
University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2003

This page will be updated on a regular basis. Final decisions about readings for the following week will be posted by 5 pm on Thursday of the previous week.

NB – ‘Tu’ and ‘Th’ denote readings assigned for Tuesday or Thursday.

Readings for this week (April 8 and 10)

Tu Silver, Lee M. Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World. New York: Avon Books, 1997. Chapters 5-7 and 11-16 (pp. 63-90 and 133-198).

Th (Class cancelled)

Readings for next week (April 15 and 17)

Tu Stock, Gregory. Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. Chapters 7-9 (pp. 124-201).

Th Kevles, Daniel J., and Leroy Hood, eds. The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. Chapters 1 and 11 (pp. 3-36 and 244-263).

Complete readings list, plus schedule for student presentations

Week 1 (January 21 and 23)

Th Foote, Robert H. “Developments in Animal Reproductive Biotechnology” (Chapter 1, pp. 3-20). In: D.P. Wolf and M. Zelinski-Wooten (eds.), Assisted Fertilization and Nuclear Transfer in Mammals, Totowa: NJ: Humana Press, 2001.

Th Blank, Robert H. Regulating Reproduction, New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. Chapters 1-3.

Week 2 (January 28 and 30)

Tu Ragoné, Helena. Surrogate Motherhood: Conception in the Heart, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994. Introduction and Chapter 1.

Tu New York State Task Force on Life and the Law. Surrogate Parenting: Analysis and Recommendations for Public Policy, 1988. Chapters 5 and 7.

Th van Niekerk, Anton, and Liezl van Zyl. “The ethics of surrogacy: Women’s reproductive labor.” Journal of Medical Ethics 21(6): 345-349, 1995. R

Th Have a look at the following websites: Center for Surrogate Parenting and Fertility Choice.

Week 3 (February 4 and 6)

Tu Mason, Mary Ann, Mark A. Fine, Sarah Carnochan. “Family law in the new millennium – For whose families?” Journal of Family Issues 22 (7): 859-881, 2001. R

Tu Stacey, Judith, and Timothy J. Biblarz. “(How) does the sexual orientation of parents matter?” American Sociological Review 66: 159-183, 2001. R

Tu Brooks, Devon, and Sheryl Goldberg. “Gay and lesbian adoptive and foster care placements: Can they meet the needs of waiting children?” Social Work 46(2): 147-157, 2001. R

Th Shanley, Mary Lyndon. Making Babies, Making Families: What Matters Most in an Age of Reproductive Technologies, Surrogacy, Adoption, and Same Sex and Unwed Parents. Boston: Beacon Press, 2001.

Week 4 (February 11 and 13)

Tu Pritchett, Lant. “Divergence, Big Time.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 11(3): 3-17, 1997. R

Tu Firebaugh, Glenn. “The trend in between-nation income inequality.” Annual Review of Sociology 26: 323-339, 2000. R

Tu Firebaugh, Glenn. “Empirics of world income inequality.” American Journal of Sociology 104(6): 1597-1630, 1999. R SKIM

Tu Korzeniewicz, Roberto P., and Timothy P. Moran. “Measuring world income inequalities.” American Journal of Sociology 106(1): 209-214, 2000. R SKIM

Tu Firebaugh, Glenn. “Observed trends in between-nation income inequality and two conjectures.” American Journal of Sociology 106(1): 215-221, 2000. R SKIM

Th Wilson, Chris. “On the scale of global demographic convergence.” Population and Development Review 27(1): 155-171, 2001. R

Th Schultz, T. Paul. “Inequality in the distribution of personal income in the world: How it is changing and why.” Journal of Population Economics 11(3): 307-344, 1998. R

Th Goesling, Brian. “Changing income inequalities within and between nations: New evidence.” American Sociological Review 66(5): 745-761, 2001. R SKIM

Th Bourguignon, Francois, and Christian Morrisson. “Inequality among world citizens: 1820-1992.” American Economic Review 92(4): 727-744, 2002. R SKIM

Week 5 (February 18 and 20)

Tu Krugman, Paul. “For Richer: How the permissive capitalism of the boom destroyed American equality.” New York Times Magazine, October 20, 2002, pp. 62-67+. R

Tu Gottschalk, Peter, and Timothy M. Smeeding. “Cross-national comparisons of earnings and income inequality.” Journal of Economic Literature 35(2): 633-687, 1997. R

Th Fischer, Claude S., and Michael Hout. “Differences among Americans in living standards across the twentieth century.” Working paper, draft dated 26 August 2002. R

Th Lewis, Michael. “In defense of the boom.” New York Times Magazine, October 27, 2002, pp. 44-49+. R SKIM

Week 6 (February 25 and 27)

Tu Barros, Ricardo Paes de, Carlos Corseuil, Rosane Mendonça, and Maurício Cortez Reis. “Poverty, inequality and macroeconomic instability.” Discussion paper, Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada, 2000. R

Tu Wilmoth, John R., and Mike Dennis. “Social differences in older adult mortality in the United States: Questions, data, methods, and results.” In: J-M Robine et al. (eds.), Human longevity, individual life duration, and the growth of the oldest-old population (tentative title), Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press (forthcoming), 2001. R

Th Freeman, Richard B. "Are your wages set in Beijing?” Journal of Economic Perspectives 9(3): 15-32, 1995. R

Th Wood, Adrian. “How trade hurt unskilled workers.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 9(3): 57-80, 1995. R

Week 7 (March 4 and 6)

Tu Teitelbaum, Michael S., and Jay M. Winter. The Fear of Population Decline. Orlando: Academic Press, 1985. Chapters 1-3.

Tu Kent, Mary M., and Mark Mather. “What drives U.S. population growth?” Population Bulletin 57(4): 1-39, 2002. [NB: Only pages 1-13 are assigned.] R

Tu “A tale of two bellies.” The Economist, 24 August 2002, p. 11. R

Tu “Half a billion Americans?” The Economist, 24 August 2002, pp. 20-22. R

Tu “Mamma mia.” New Scientist, 20 July 2002, pp. 38-xx. R

Th Teitelbaum, Michael S., and Jay M. Winter. The Fear of Population Decline. Orlando: Academic Press, 1985. Chapters 6-7.

Th Kohler, Hans-Peter, Francesco C. Billari, and Jose-Antonio Ortega. “The emergence of lowest-low fertility in Europe during the 1990s.” Population and Development Review 28(4): 641-680, 2002. R

Week 8 (March 11 and 13)

Tu Gauthier, Anne Hélène. The State and the Family. Oxford, U.K.: Clarendon, 1996. Chapters 7, 8, and 10.

Th (Class cancelled)

Week 9 (March 18 and 20)

Tu Health Promotion: An Anthology, PAHO Scientific Publication, No. 557, 1996. [Read pp. 34-40, 329-333, and 343-359 only. Within the Glossary section, please read the part about “Basic Concepts” closely and just skim the rest.]

Tu Christopher J.L. Murray, Alan D. Lopez, Colin D. Mathers, and Claudia Stein. “The Global Burden of Disease 2000 project: aims, methods and data sources.” Harvard University, Burden of Disease Unit, Research Paper No. 01.1, 2001. R

Tu Christopher J.L. Murray and Alan D. Lopez. Summary, The Global Burden of Disease: A comprehensive assessment of mortality and disability from diseases, injuries, and risk factors in 1990 and projected to 2020. Cambridge, MA: Harvard School of Public Health, 1996. R SKIM

Th Cohen, Jonathan. “The global burden of disease study: a useful projection of future global health?” Journal of Public Health Medicine 22(4): 518-524, 2000. R

Th Williams, Alan. “Calculating the global burden of disease: Time for a strategic reappraisal?” Health Economics 8(1): 1-8, 1999. R

Th Murray, Christopher J. L., and Alan D. Lopez. “Progress and directions in refining the global burden of disease approach: A response to Williams.” Health Economics 9(1): 69-82, 2000. R SKIM

Th Williams, Alan. “Comments on the response by Murray and Lopez.” Health Economics 9(1): 83-86, 1999. R SKIM

Spring Break (March 24-28)

Week 10 (April 1 and 3)

Tu National Research Council. Beyond Six Billion: Forecasting the World’s Population. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2000. Executive Summary and Introduction (pp. 1-36), plus one of Chapters 2-7 (your choice). LINK

Th Wolfgang Lutz, Warren Sanderson, Sergei Scherbov. “The end of world population growth.” Nature 412: 543-545, 2001. R

Th Ringland, Gill. Scenarios in Public Policy. New York: Wiley, 2002. Sections I.7-I.9 and II.1, pp. 57-93 only.

Th “The Japan puzzle” and “Three futures for Japan.” The Economist, March 21, 1998, pp. 21-27. SKIM

Week 11 (April 8 and 10)

Tu Silver, Lee M. Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World. New York: Avon Books, 1997. Chapters 5-7 and 11-16 (pp. 63-90 and 133-198).

Th (Class cancelled)

Week 12 (April 15 and 17)

Tu Stock, Gregory. Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. Chapters 7-9 (pp. 124-201).

Th Kevles, Daniel J., and Leroy Hood, eds. The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. Chapters 1 and 11 (pp. 3-36 and 244-263).

Week 13 (April 22 and 24)

Tu Student presentation (Rachel)

Th Student presentations (Richard, Sarah W.)

Week 14 (April 29 and May 1)

Tu Student presentations (Sarah S., Wiraporn)

Th (Class cancelled)

Week 15 (May 6 and 8)

Tu Student presentations (Bernardo, Trevon)

Th Student presentations (Bryan, Michelle)

Week 16 (May 13)

Tu Student presentations (Stacy, Sarah T.)