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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.
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.
The heart of this book is its fully annotated, critical editions of
the surviving work of Richard Edwards, one of the most influential
poets and dramatists writing in England before Shakespeare. Ros
King's extensive introduction, identifying the holes in the
documentary evidence that might accommodate this important but now
little known writer, rewrites the history of pre-Shakespearean
drama, illustrates new approaches to sixteenth-century prosody and
to the modernisation of dramatic poetry, and re-evaluates the
public role of theatre and poetry during a particularly turbulent
period in English history. The book includes Edwards' play, Damon
and Pythias, his poems (some never before printed and some newly
ascribed), together with a number of original musical settings.
There is also a detailed description of the staging of his
spectacular lost play, Palamon and Arcyte, performed before Queen
Elizabeth I at Oxford, with eye-witness accounts of her reactions.
While it will be essential reading for specialist scholars, it will
also be of much wider interest. The introduction is highly
accessible which makes it an appropriate text-book for students in
a field where few textbooks are available. It will appeal to the
current appetite among the reading public for biography, while the
play, poems and songs are themselves very appealing.
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