Objective
Dramatic changes in demographic patterns have occurred in Europe since the mid 1960's. Fertility levels have dropped to far below replacement level in most European countries, effective contraception has transformed the relation between sexuality, partnerships and parenthood, and marriage has become much less widespread and stable than it used to be. These changes have wide-ranging implications for European societies. For instance, the drop in fertility leads to a rapid ageing of Europe's population that will exceed most forecasts unless a reversal of this trend occurs in the near future. Moreover, low fertility will transform the social relations since family networks will become an increasingly less relevant source of social, psychological and economic support. The increased diversity in living arrangements has also profound consequences for the income distribution, the well fare of small children, and the life-chances across individuals and households.
Against this background, the proposed series of two conferences tries to achieve a number of goals: - Documenting demographic changes in the realms of family and fertility since the 1960's and especially in the 1990's; - Understanding the driving forces behind these changes and disentangling the relevance of economic, cultural and social factors affecting fertility and family behaviour; - Assessing whether these driving forces are similar in Western, Eastern and Southern Europe; - Evaluating whether the changes, like the movement to unprecedented low fertility levels during the 1990's, are of temporary or permanent nature; - Evaluating the role of medical innovations, effective contraception and proception on fertility and sexuality; - Understanding the interrelationships between changes in family and fertility on the one hand and changes in other demographic processes (migration and mortality) on the other hand; - Charting the individual and social implications of demographic changes ( e.g. with regard to social cohesion, social exclusion, public policy); - Investigating the possibilities of public policies to accommodate or influence these developments.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- social sciences political sciences political policies public policies
- social sciences sociology demography mortality
- social sciences sociology demography fertility
- social sciences sociology social issues social inequalities
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