Abstract
Trends toward later and lessmarriage and childbearing have been even more pronounced in East Asia than in the West. At the same time, many other features of East Asian families have changed very little. We review recent research on trends in awide range of family behaviors inChina, Japan,Korea, and Taiwan.We also draw upon a range of theoretical frameworks to argue that trends in marriage and fertility reflect tension between rapid social and economic changes and limited change in family expectations and obligations. We discuss how this tension may be contributing to growing socioeconomic differences in patterns of family formation. This focus on East Asia extends research on the second demographic transition in the West by describing how rapid decline in marriage and fertility rates can occur in the absence of major changes in family attitudes or rising individualism.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 471-492 |
Number of pages | 22 |
Journal | Annual Review of Sociology |
Volume | 41 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 14 2015 |
Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Sociology and Political Science
Keywords
- development
- fertility
- gender
- marriage
- second demographic transition