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300 Social sciences
- 300 Social sciences
- 301 Sociology & anthropology
- 302 Social interaction
- 303 Social processes
- 304 Factors affecting social behavior
304.2 Human ecology
304.6 Population
304.8 Movement of people - 305 Social groups
- 306 Culture & institutions
- 307 Communities
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- MT (MicroThesaurus): subset of a thesaurus, usually containing terms from a subject area narrower than the scope of the whole thesaurus;
- NT (Narrower Term): used to indicate the relationship of the generic concept to a more specific one, together with an indication of the number of hierarchical steps between the broader term and each narrower term;
- RT (Related Term): preferred label for a concept that has an associative relationship with the one in question.
28 Social questions
MT 2811 migration
- migration
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NT1 frontier migration
NT1 Community migration
NT1 occupational migration
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NT1 migrant
NT1 diaspora
NT1 emigration
NT1 female migrant
NT1 circular migration
NT1 economic migration
MT 2816 demography and population
- geographical distribution of the population
NT1 rural population
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NT1 town-country relationship
NT1 residence
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NT1 concentration of the population - population dynamics
NT1 population ageing
NT1 depopulation
NT1 overpopulation
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NT1 generation renewal - demography
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NT1 population policy
NT1 life expectancy - composition of the population
NT1 household
NT1 distribution by age
NT1 distribution by sex
NT1 indigenous population
eBook collections
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Oxford Scholarship Online
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Search journals by Decimal Dewey Classification
304 Factors affecting social behavior
- 304 Factors affecting social behavior
304.2 Human ecology
304.6 Population
304.8 Movement of people
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eJournal collections
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Cambridge Core Journals
Elsevier ScienceDirect
- Geography, Planning and Developing (browse by subject)
Emerald eJournals Premier
- Urban & Rural sociology (browse by subject)
SAGE Journals
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SpringerLink
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