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This paper contains a description of the basic population model and a discussion of applications of the model to some problems of common concern to demographers and sociologists. The concept of a population is advocated as a frame of reference in investigations of population composition and process, in the resolution of differences between macroanalysis and microanalysis, and in the design of studies of social change.
Norman B. Ryder (Sun,) studied this question.