The dynamics of population change in general and changes in family
size and spacing in particular are long-standing issues of intense
controversy and concern. So too, are the methods of explanation
employed by social scientists in studying these and other social
phenomena. Originally published in 1977, this book offered an
account of a research programme designed to explain the changes in
fertility in post-war England, and it offered a contribution to
both debates. First, the authors provide an account of the factors
that influenced family size and spacing in the post-war period,
rejecting both classical population theory on the Malthusian model
and more recent economic theories of fertility. Second, the authors
discuss the weaknesses of the survey techniques and the associated
methods of inference that formed the basis of their research
design, as methods for producing explanations of social phenomena.
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