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‘Reproductive Regimes: Changing Relations of Inter-dependence and Fertility Change’

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Within sociological and demographic research many argue that recent demographic transformations can be explained, at least in part, by a growth in individualism. Such approaches, with their emphasis on growing individual autonomy, offer a model of human action in which the social recedes from analysis. This paper offers an alternative framework for analysing processes shaping demographic change, taking as a particular focus aspects of changing patterns of fertility in the UK. Interpretations of the fertility decline at the turn of the twentieth century emphasise the importance of changing patterns of inter-dependence across generations and between women and men. It is argued that in parallel, although to a lesser degree, recent decades have manifest a change in the social positioning of these groups. Change in the reproductive regime is offered as a concept for denoting this restructuring of inter-dependencies. We are witnessing a reconfiguration of social ties and not their displacement. It is as an integral part of such changes that developments in fertility are best interrogated.

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  • Sarah Irwin, 2000. "‘Reproductive Regimes: Changing Relations of Inter-dependence and Fertility Change’," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 5(1), pages 85-98, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:5:y:2000:i:1:p:85-98
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.445
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    1. Kevin Ralston & Vernon Gayle & Paul Lambert, 2016. "Gender, Occupation and First Birth: Do ‘Career Men’ Delay First Birth Too?," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 21(1), pages 90-101, February.

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