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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?
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Abstract "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... mehr
"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 respective methodologies of enquiry. The theoretical challenge is to construct an intellectually facilitating heuristic framework for synthesis of comparative, multidisciplinary study of the multiple fertility declines that have occurred, not to seek a replacement 'general narrative' for discredited demographic transition and modernization theories. Quantitative historical demography can only gain in its explanatory power by engaging with studies which also incorporate research into such qualitative aspects of gender as sex and power and which address a more historicist understanding of the role of culture by exploring its relationship with institutions, ideology and politics. It is argued that a number of recent, contextualized local and comparative studies of fertility declines are demonstrating how productively to combine quantitative and qualitative methods to explore rigorously these aspects of the history of fertility declines. Within the heuristic framework envisaged here, priorities for further research in the future would include exploring comparatively the relationship between reproductive change and communication communities with respect to the ideologically and politically-mediated issues of sex, religion, health, disease and education." (author's abstract)... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Bevölkerungsentwicklung; Theorie; Geburtenrückgang; Fruchtbarkeit; historische Entwicklung; institutionelle Faktoren; Reproduktion; Methode; Modernisierungstheorie; Demographie; Zukunft; Politik; Kultur; vergleichende Forschung; Religion; Gesundheit; Sexualität; Bildung; Forschungsansatz; Familienplanung
Klassifikation
Bevölkerung
Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung
Methode
anwendungsorientiert; Grundlagenforschung; historisch
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2011
Seitenangabe
S. 65-98
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 36 (2011) 2
Heftthema
Fertilität in der Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts: Trends, Theorien, Politik, Diskurse
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.36.2011.2.65-98
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)