(Missing) Intersections of Social Inequality and Population Research
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| Free Admission |
| German |
| Ground Floor, Hall 3 |
| Part of: Lecture series “Family Matters” |
Social inequality and population research have developed as parallel conversations with little intersection. In this talk, I will present descriptive results on the parallel development of these research areas using basic text analysis of published research from 1960 to the present. I will argue that the relative neglect of social inequalities in quantitative population research is related to a Eurocentric bias in the social sciences, and I will quantify this bias using various sources. Additionally, I will provide examples of how population research, particularly family and fertility research, could benefit from a focus on social inequality. Finally, I will offer my view on how social inequality research could be better integrated into the social sciences beyond population studies.
This lecture is part of the “Beziehungsweise Familie” lecture series, which is the prelude to the Humboldt Forum’s program year for 2025-26, under the same title.
Participants
Dr. Andrés F. Castro (Center for Demographic Studies, Barcelona)
Prof. Dr. Daniel Tyradellis (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Dr. Alia Rayyan (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Dr. Laura Goldenbaum (Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss)
Dr. Andrés F. Castrois a computational social scientist, sociologist, and demographer at the
Computational Social Science and Humanities Program of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (CSSH-BSC).I graduated from the UNiversity of Pennsylvania in 2019 and since then I have worked in several research centers in Europe including the Frenc National Institute for Demographic Research (Ined), the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, and the Center for Demographic Studies in Barcelona. My research areas include global inequalities in knowledge production, bibliometric analysis and research assessment, and population studies, primarily focus on fertility and family dynamics in the global south and among immigrant populations.
1. Castro Torres, A.F., and Aliakbar Akbaritabar. 2024. “The Use of Linear Models
in Quantitative Research.” Quantitative Science Studies, March, 1–21.
https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00294.
2. Castro Torres, A. F., and Diego Alburez-Gutierrez. (2022). “North and South:
Naming Practices and the Hidden Dimension of Global Disparities in Knowledge
Production.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (10):
e2119373119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2119373119.
3. Castro Torres, A. F., Ewa Batyra, and Mikko Myrskylä. (2022). “Income
Inequality and Increasing Dispersion of the Transition to First Birth in the Global
South.” Population and Development Review 48 (1): 189–215.
https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12451
This lecture is part of the “Beziehungsweise Familie” lecture series, which is the prelude to the Humboldt Forum’s program year for 2025-26, under the same title.
The lecture series is being held as part of a collaboration between all institutions of the Humboldt Forum.
Head Curator for the Programme year 2025-26: Dr. Laura Goldenbaum
