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Understanding Family Change and Variation - Toward a Theory of Conjunctural Action (Hardcover, 2011) Loot Price: R2,930
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Understanding Family Change and Variation - Toward a Theory of Conjunctural Action (Hardcover, 2011): Jennifer A....

Understanding Family Change and Variation - Toward a Theory of Conjunctural Action (Hardcover, 2011)

Jennifer A. Johnson-Hanks, Christine A. Bachrach, S. Philip Morgan, Hans-Peter Kohler; Contributions by Lynette Hoelter, Rosalind King, Pamela Smock

Series: Understanding Population Trends and Processes, 5

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Fertility rates vary considerably across and within societies, and over time. Over the last three decades, social demographers have made remarkable progress in documenting these axes of variation, but theoretical models to explain family change and variation have lagged behind. At the same time, our sister disciplines-from cultural anthropology to social psychology to cognitive science and beyond-have made dramatic strides in understanding how social action works, and how bodies, brains, cultural contexts, and structural conditions are coordinated in that process. "Understanding Family Change and Variation: Toward a Theory of Conjunctural Action" argues that social demography must be reintegrated into the core of theory and research about the processes and mechanisms of social action, and proposes a framework through which that reintegration can occur. This framework posits that material and schematic structures profoundly shape the occurrence, frequency, and context of the vital events that constitute the object of social demography. Fertility and family behaviors are best understood as a function not just of individual traits, but of the structured contexts in which behavior occurs. This approach upends many assumptions in social demography, encouraging demographers to embrace the endogeneity of social life and to move beyond fruitless debates of structure versus culture, of agency versus structure, or of biology versus society.

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Imprint: Springer
Country of origin: Netherlands
Series: Understanding Population Trends and Processes, 5
Release date: August 2011
First published: 2011
Authors: Jennifer A. Johnson-Hanks • Christine A. Bachrach • S. Philip Morgan • Hans-Peter Kohler
Contributors: Lynette Hoelter • Rosalind King • Pamela Smock
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 180
Edition: 2011
ISBN-13: 978-9400719446
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > General
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LSN: 9400719442
Barcode: 9789400719446

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