This approach upends many assumptions in social demography, encouraging demographers to embrace the endogeneity of social life and to move beyond fruitless debates of structure versus culture, of agency versus structure, or of biology versus society.
Introduction.- Chapter 1: The Theory of Conjunctural Action.- Chapter 2: Consilience.- Chapter 3: Fertility Change and Variation: S. Philip Morgan and Hans-Peter Kohler.- Chapter 4: Social Class and the Timing and Context of Childbearing: Christine Bachrach, Pamela Smock, and Lynette Hoelter.- Chapter 5: A Conjunctural History of Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Jennifer Johnson-Hanks and Rosalind King.- Conclusion.
This volume authored by renowned socio-demographers is a remarkable "enterprise". European Journal of Population 28:2 (2012)