371 - Thematic Session. Hard Times and Families in the Past: Lessons from the Eurasia Project

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

This session assess the implications of the Eurasia Project in Family and Population (EAP) for our understanding of family organization and demographic behavior in past times, and for the conduct of historical and comparative research. For twenty years, EAP participants have engaged in a large-scale, comparative, quantitative investigation of family, community, household responses to hard times in the past via analysis of patterns of demographic responses to economic and other stress in longitudinal, individual-level historical data. Results have provided insight into family responses to hard times in Europe and Asia as revealed by differences in patterns of individual responses according to community, household, and family context. It has produced two volumes on mortality and fertility published by MIT Press. A third volume, on marriage, is forthcoming from MIT Press in 2014. After a brief introduction to the project, four distinguished panelists will assess its implications for historical and comparative sociology, demography, and family sociology.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizer

• Cameron Campbell, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Presider

• Cameron Campbell, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Panelists

• Cameron Campbell, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

• James Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

• Jason Beckfield, Harvard University

• Daniel Little, University of Michigan

• Andreas Wimmer, Princeton University

• Satomi Kurosu, Reitaku University