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The agency of fertility plans
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 t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9732582/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36505766 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.923756 |
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author | Bazzani, Giacomo Vignoli, Daniele |
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description | 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. |
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spelling | pubmed-97325822022-12-10 The agency of fertility plans Bazzani, Giacomo Vignoli, Daniele Front Sociol Sociology 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. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9732582/ /pubmed/36505766 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.923756 Text en Copyright © 2022 Bazzani and Vignoli. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Sociology Bazzani, Giacomo Vignoli, Daniele The agency of fertility plans |
title | The agency of fertility plans |
title_full | The agency of fertility plans |
title_fullStr | The agency of fertility plans |
title_full_unstemmed | The agency of fertility plans |
title_short | The agency of fertility plans |
title_sort | agency of fertility plans |
topic | Sociology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9732582/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36505766 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.923756 |
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