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Author: Lee Rainwater
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint: AldineTransaction
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.476kg
ISBN: 9780202309378
ISBN 10: 0202309371
Pages: 348
Publication Date: 15 February 2007
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
<p> The main strength of this book lies in its sociological hypotheses concerning the reasons for differences in fertility rates and in prevalence and effectiveness of family planning by social class, religion, and color... [T]he author has served an important function in pointing up the need for sociological as well as psychological approaches to the study of human fertility. <p> --Clyde V. Kiser, American Sociological Review
-The main strength of this book lies in its sociological hypotheses concerning the reasons for differences in fertility rates and in prevalence and effectiveness of family planning by social class, religion, and color... [T]he author has served an important function in pointing up the need for sociological as well as psychological approaches to the study of human fertility.- --Clyde V. Kiser, American Sociological Review
"-The main strength of this book lies in its sociological hypotheses concerning the reasons for differences in fertility rates and in prevalence and effectiveness of family planning by social class, religion, and color... [T]he author has served an important function in pointing up the need for sociological as well as psychological approaches to the study of human fertility.- --Clyde V. Kiser, American Sociological Review ""The main strength of this book lies in its sociological hypotheses concerning the reasons for differences in fertility rates and in prevalence and effectiveness of family planning by social class, religion, and color... [T]he author has served an important function in pointing up the need for sociological as well as psychological approaches to the study of human fertility."" --Clyde V. Kiser, American Sociological Review ""The main strength of this book lies in its sociological hypotheses concerning the reasons for differences in fertility rates and in prevalence and effectiveness of family planning by social class, religion, and color... [T]he author has served an important function in pointing up the need for sociological as well as psychological approaches to the study of human fertility."" --Clyde V. Kiser, American Sociological Review"
Author Information
Lee Rainwater is professor emeritus of sociology at Harvard University and research director of the Luxembourg Income Study. He was one of the original founders of Transaction. He has been associate editor of Journal of Marriage and the Family and on the review board of Sociological Quarterly. He was written various books and in many professional journals.
