the corse supplies an introduction to the main methods and advanced tools for the study of demographic and social phoenomena particulary about inequality, human develompent and povertry (LM87/88) also as some of the principal reasons of international migration (LM52); and the student who complete the corse successfully will be able to demonstrate a real knowledge of the main processes in social question regarding human development. However, he or she will be able to look critically at social changin questions, and will have dimonstrated the ability to identify and to interpret the causes of demographic and social principal phoenomena.