The Uses of Culture in Demographic Research: A Continuing Place for Community Studies.  

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Fricke, Tom

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Population and Development Review vol. 23 no. 4 (Dec. 1997), page 825-832 .
Topik: Culture in Demographic; Community Studies.

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FOR A CULTURAL anthropologist, one of the most promising developments in demography over the last 20 years has been the demise of its once guid- ing paradigm, classic demographic transition theory. Wielding the ham- mers that drove the nails into its coffin were demographers themselves, writing in the summary volume of the Princeton study of European fertil- ity transitions. Comments on that study by John Knodel and Etienne van de Walle, Susan Watkins, and Barbara Anderson (Coale and Watkins 1986) all referred to the failure of the supposed predictors-urbanization, literacy, infant and child mortality, and industrialization-to account for the pat- tern of decline in the various regions of Europe. All of these authors noted the impact of a theretofore little understood variable, cultural setting, on the rates and shape of transition. Their striking candor, along with the par- allel developments in John Caldwell's work in other geographic areas (Caldwell 1982; Caldwell, Reddy, and Caldwell 1988), opened a new era in demographic research. The new era, which we are still in, is marked by a self-conscious search for methodologies that will allow demographers to in- corporate cultural meanings into their explanations of demographic processes.

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