MODERNIZATION VALUE CHANGE AND FERTILITY IN THE SOVIET UNION

JONES Ellen, GRUPP Fred W.

ISBN 10: 0521320348 / ISBN 13: 9780521320344

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1987. 0521320348, 1987

About this Item

1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (part of top edge very lightly spotted - otherwise Fine), dustwrapper (Fine). Pp. xiv + 420, illus with figures and tables (no inscriptions).

Seller Inventory # 115786

Bibliographic Details

• Title: MODERNIZATION VALUE CHANGE AND FERTILITY IN THE SOVIET UNION
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1987. 0521320348
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521320348
• ISBN 13: 9780521320344
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern History

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Synopsis

This book is about social change in the Soviet Union. It explores the way in which the social, economic and political transformations encompassed by modernization affect values and behaviours. Its analytical focus is the family and the system of norms and values governing sex roles and familial relations. The study is part of a larger effort to unravel the complex linkages between modernization, value change, demographic change and public policy. It has two related objectives. First, it explores the relationship between value change and fertility, using statistical material from the Soviet census, birth registry, and social surveys, to test specific hypotheses relating to the modernization/value change relationship. Second, it examines the impact of public policies, both intended and unintended, on family values and fertility trends. A model of Soviet fertility dynamics, based on the empirical findings of the study, is also presented.

Review

"This is a fine piece of social science research. The writing is clear, the figures and tables helpful, and the conclusion unambiguous." Slavic Review