Thinking about Children: Sociology and Fertility in Post-War England

by Michael Paddon and Joan Busfield

Book Overview

The dynamics of population change in general and changes in family size and spacing in particular are long-standing issues of intense controversy and concern. So too, are the methods of explanation employed by social scientists in studying these and other social phenomena. Originally published in 1977, this book offered an account of a research programme designed to explain the changes in fertility in post-war England, and it offered a contribution...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521134471
• ISBN13: 9780521134477
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"