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On the Social Control of Human Reproduction
Abstract
Most societies control fertility and population growth to some degree through basic institutional arrangements that support the functioning of the social system as a whole. This article tries to specify these arrangements to establish their raison detre and to document the ways in which the nature of the fertility transition is contingent upon changes in the normative code and the system of social control. Drawing on the record for historical Western Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa it considers first the linkages between appropriation of resources patterns of social control risk-sharing devolution and demographic checks in pretransitional setting and then proceeds to examine these variables in the context of demographic transition. (Authors) (Summaries in ENG FRE SPA)
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lesthaeghe, R.
- Venue
- Population and Development Review
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1980-12
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 527
- ISSN
- 0098-7921 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2061435220
- Cited by
- 247
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 2.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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