Overview
- Provides state-of-the-art research on the dramatic transformations reshaping the family
- An accessible resource for advanced techniques in analyzing family demography
- Incisive research on a broad range of significant contemporary family issues
Part of the book series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis (PSDE, volume 56)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Methodological Analyses of Transforming Families
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Front Matter
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Case Studies of Family Transformation
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Keywords
- Contemporary family
- Family change
- Family heterogeneity
- Second Demographic Transition
- Family and fertility
- Family demography
- Kinship and family
- Family and deviant behaviour
- Biological limits on fertility
- Family structure
- Theories of family change
- Economic impacts on family structure
- Family stability
- Cohort effects on fertility
- Fertility timing
- Family dynamics
- Family life course
About this book
This book provides an up-to-date survey on the nature, causes, and patterns of family change. The traditional nuclear family has been replaced by a multiplicity of other forms, as widespread cohabitation, high levels of divorce and union dissolution, rising childlessness, and far below replacement fertility have emerged to an extent never before seen. Theoretical perspectives on this “Second Demographic Transition” are presented, highlighting the dramatic changes in gender roles. New methodological strategies for assessing family dynamics are presented, from multistate models of marriage and divorce combined with fertility to improved techniques for combining census and survey data on the family to a new approach for disentangling age, period, and cohort effects. While the volume emphasizes Western nations, insightful case studies range from analyzing family complexity in cohorts of parents and children in the UK to the impact of interpartner violence on family formation, to the emergence of a “gender war” in South Korea. By providing new insights into where we are today and how we got here, the book will be of value to all those interested in the contemporary family.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Robert Schoen received a 1972 Ph.D. degree in Demography from the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He has been a Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Johns Hopkins University, and Penn State University, where he was the inaugural Hoffman Professor of Family Sociology and Demography. In 2004, he received the Mindel Sheps Award in Mathematical Demography/Demographic Methods from the Population Association of America.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Demography of Transforming Families
Editors: Robert Schoen
Series Title: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29666-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29665-9Published: 24 August 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29668-0Due: 24 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-29666-6Published: 23 August 2023
Series ISSN: 1877-2560
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1990
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 300
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations