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Society and Family Strategy: Erie County, New York 1850-1920 by Mark J. Stern (Paperback, 1987)

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Society and Family Strategy : Erie County, New York, 1850-1920 / Mark J. Stern. Full title: Society and Family Strategy : Erie County, New York, 1850-1920 / Mark J. Stern. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.

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Using one of the largest quantitative data bases ever compiled on a single representative community, Stern explains and substantiates the reasons for the decline of the fertility rate during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He integrates demographic and social history to determine the implications of this aspect of the modernization of America. Society and Family Strategy describes the impact of capitalism, and changing class and ethnic structure on family economy, life cycle, and ideology. The author evaluates recent studies by social historians on the family, social class, and ethnicity in light of the Erie County experience, examines theories of social and cultural change, and proposes a non-evolutionary model of their relationship.