Modernization, Value Change and Fertility in the Soviet Union

Klappentext This book explores social change in the Soviet Union. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; List of tables; Introduction; Part I. The Impact of Modernization and Value Change on Fertility: 1. Social change and fertility transition; 2. Patterns of social and demographic modernization in the USSR; 3. The social correlates of fertility in the USSR; Part II. Public Policy and Population Dynamics: 4. Social policy, family values, and fertility change; 5. Soviet demographic policy and fertility transition; Part III. Conclusions: 6. Social change and fertility decline in the USSR; Appendices; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Fred W. Grupp, Ellen Jones, Ellen Grupp Jones
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.03.2009
• EAN: 9780521102476
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10247-6
• No. of pages: 436
• Series: Cambridge Russian, Soviet and
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries