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Theories and heuristics: how best to approach the study of historic fertility declines?

Theorien und Heuristiken: mit welcher Herangehensweise sollte man historische Geburtenrückgänge untersuchen?

"This paper argues that a move away from a unifying but teleological framework for studying fertility declines can only been intellectually emancipating and is a necessary precondition for scientific advance. The study of change in human reproduction is an immensely complex and multi-faceted problem which requires the combination of both quantitative and qualitative forms of evidence and their res…

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Creator

  • Szreter, Simon

Subject

  • Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
  • History
  • Population Studies, Sociology of Population
  • Social History, Historical Social Research
  • population development
  • theory
  • declining birth rate
  • fertility
  • historical development
  • institutional factors
  • …
  • Education
  • History
  • Demography
  • Technique
  • Religion

Type of item

  • Zeitschriftenartikel