Bøger af Genaro (Kansai Gaidai University Castro-Vazquez

Castro-Vazquez adopts a new approach in studying the decreasing fertility rates contributing to ageing population in modern Japan. Based on the accounts of 57 married Japanese women, he employs symbolic interactionism as a framework to examine the various factors affecting decision-making on childbirth. With strong contextual information as the foundation, he offers fresh insight as to how Japanese women today perceive the idea of childbirth in a modernized society which will assist the readers in understanding the factors causing Japan¿s ageing population.