Abstract
Our project in this book aims at consilience, a term popularized by Wilson (1998, p. 8) to signify a “jumping together” of perspectives and facts to produce a “unity of knowledge”. In this way, our efforts resonate with current trends toward multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary theory and research. It is important to note that seeking consilience is different from seeking a compromise or consensus. Some perspectives and models will be partially or even completely incompatible with ours. Usually this occurs because we are convinced that the research across a range of disciplines points away from that perspective and toward a different one. For example, approaches that view family processes as dependent only on custom or only on utility maximization are not well supported by contemporary empirical research.
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Notes
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Most readers will be familiar with a third alternative: fertility falls because contraception or abortion becomes available (see Potts, 1997).
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Many of the examples in the next two paragraphs are drawn from Lawrence Barsalou’s lecture notes, available at: http://www.psychology.emory.edu/cognition/barsalou/
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Note that the stability of preferences—an explicit assumption of the rational choice model—is very different from the stability of demand. Whether the demand for children is stable is an empirical question that depends not only on preferences, but also on prices and the budget constraint.
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