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DIFFUSION PROCESSES AND FERTILITY TRANSITION
SELECTED PERSPECTIVES |
| By: |
Committee on Population, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0309076102 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780309076104 |
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| Publisher: |
NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 November, 2001 |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Description: |
Addresses the roles of diffusion processes, ideational change, social networks, and mass communications in changing behavior and values, especially as related to childbearing. This book reveals empirical research emerging from studies of social networks in Asia, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa. |
| Synopsis: |
This volume is part of an effort to review what is known about the determinants of fertility transition in developing countries and to identify lessons that might lead to policies aimed at lowering fertility. It addresses the roles of diffusion processes, ideational change, social networks, and mass communications in changing behavior and values, especially as related to childbearing. A new body of empirical research is currently emerging from studies of social networks in Asia (Thailand, Taiwan, Korea), Latin America (Costa Rica), and Sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya, Malawi, Ghana). Given the potential significance of social interactions to the design of effective family planning programs in high-fertility settings, efforts to synthesize this emerging body of literature are clearly important. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
National Academies Press |
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