The agency of fertility plans.
agency
capability approach
conversion factors
fertility
future
life-course
open questions
positive sociology
Journal
Frontiers in sociology
ISSN: 2297-7775
Titre abrégé: Front Sociol
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101777459
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2022
2022
Historique:
received:
19
04
2022
accepted:
01
11
2022
entrez:
12
12
2022
pubmed:
13
12
2022
medline:
13
12
2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Fertility plans are a prominent area for agency research, and are a clear example of a misalignment between resources and agency capacity. We relied both on the idea of conversion factors of the Capability Approach and the pragmatist tradition of temporal-oriented agency to propose a framework for the study of fertility agency as the conversion process of resources into plans and behavior. We outlined said framework by using a unique dataset on fertility plans composed of open and closed questions from an Italian sample. Economic factors and imaginaries related to children and family represented the vast majority of (hindering and enabling) conversion factors. The notion of conversion factors is crucial for disentangling the network of heterogeneous elements involved in fertility agency: it allows focus to be shifted from structural factors related to social position and psychological characteristics to more situated elements that enable agency capacity.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36505766
doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2022.923756
pmc: PMC9732582
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
923756Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2022 Bazzani and Vignoli.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
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