When traditional meets modern : second demographic transition theory and the indicators of family change.

• Main Author: Tan, Patricia Shi Nan.
• Other Authors: Sun Hsiao-Li Shirley
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Family, marriage and women
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/22124
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In the West, the fundamental changes in family formation and fertility in industrialized societies after the 1960s were revolutionary. Theorists of the Second Demographic Transition (SDT) postulated that value change towards individualism has been the reason generating the shifts in fertility behavi...