Syllabus
Sylabus is available in Czech.
Annotation
The position of demography within the current development of science, the essence of scientific approach to reality and the importance of ideology in the process of cognition, classification scientific disciplines and the position of demography within them. Attention is paid to the importance of statistics and statistical structures in understanding reality and use
This approach to understanding the hierarchy of reality, the essence of a systemic approach in demography and the internal and external conditionality of demographic processes.
A separate issue is the internal differentiation of demography and its connection to knowledge in fields such as sociology, economics, geography, anthropology and ecology. The concept of demographic development, theory of demographic revolution, population optimum is explained and attention is paid to it critical discussion of the current state of demographic theory.
