論小傳統生育文化-以日照市東村為例

"Little Traditional Fertility Culture"-A Case Study of Dong Village, Rizhao, China

鄭衛東(Wei-Dong Zheng)

《人口學刊》 35期 (2007/12) Pp. 147-169

摘要

存在於基層社區的「小傳統生育文化」應該成為研究當代生育文化演變的邏輯起點。實證研究發現，解放前東村的「小傳統生育文化」有如下特徵：（一）重生育、重生男；（二）比較重視多生，但並不認為孩子越多越好，村民理想的子女數量結構是二男二女或三男兩女，至少也要二男一女；（三）重多生，但不重視優生優育，子女教育存在嚴重的男性偏重；（四）在婚育年齡方面表現出很不正常的早婚早育傾向，娃娃親比較普遍。本研究可以增進對傳統生育文化的認識，啟發重新思考計劃生育政策的作用，或許會改變人們對中國人口轉變過程的一般認識。

關鍵字

人口轉變 ； 生育文化 ； 小傳統生育文化 ； 村落

並列摘要

”The little traditional fertility culture” is the logical starting point for an up-to-date study on fertility culture change. Through the experimental study on the fertility culture in a village before the establishment of the People's Republic of China, some differences come up between ”the big traditional fertility” and ”the little traditional fertility culture”, such as: (1) it has supreme value for family to birth boys; (2) the villagers generally disagreed with the common saying of ”the more births, the better” and instead desired birth control (3) the villagers' average ages of marriage and of onset of fertility were abnormally young. This study increases the knowledge of traditional fertility culture and may prompt a reevalution of both the effectiveness of birth control policies and standard thinking about China's demographic transition.

並列關鍵字

demographic transition ； fertility culture ； little traditional fertility culture ； village

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