Fertility-relevant social networks: composition, structure, and meaning of personal relationships for fertility intentions.

Autor/inn/en	Keim, Sylvia; Klärner, Andreas; Bernardi, Laura
Institution	Max-Planck-Institut für Demografische Forschung
Titel	Fertility-relevant social networks: composition, structure, and meaning of personal relationships for fertility intentions. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Fertilitätsrelevante soziale Netzwerke. Zusammensetzung, Struktur und Bedeutung von persönlichen Beziehungen für den Kinderwunsch.
Quelle	Rostock (2009), 27 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	MPIDR Working Paper. 2009-006
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Kinderwunsch; Subjektivität; Soziale Beziehung; Geburtenentwicklung; Geburtenrückgang; Kinderlosigkeit; Kind; Geburtenhäufigkeit; Netzwerk; Deutschland
Abstract	"Although the relevance of social interactions or social networks for fertility research has been increasingly acknowledged in recent years, little is known about the channels and mechanisms of social influences on individuals' fertility decision making. Drawing on problem-centred interviews and network data collected among young adults in western Germany the authors show that qualitative methods broaden our understanding of social and contextual influences on couples' fertility intentions, by exploring the phenomenon, taking into account subjective perceptions, analysing interactions within networks as well as the dynamics of networks. Qualitative methods allow for the collection and analysis of rich retrospective information on network dynamics in relation to life course events. This also can be helpful both to complement the still rare longitudinal data on social networks and to develop parsimonious and efficient survey instruments to collect such information in a standardized way." (author's abstract).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2010/1