TY - JOUR ID - 123318 TI - Analysis of the Socio-cultural Contexts of Fertility Decline in Iran JO - Socio-Cultural Strategy JA - SCS LA - en SN - 2251-7081 AU - Sadeghi, Rasoul AD - PhD of demography, faculty member of Tehran University and researcher in NIPR Y1 - 2016 PY - 2016 VL - 5 IS - 3 SP - 217 EP - 246 KW - culture KW - ethnicity KW - values orientations KW - Individualism KW - cultural diffusion KW - below-replacement fertility DO - N2 - Fertility as a social action occurs in the socio-cultural context. Cultural and Institutional arrangements shape the values and norms of childbearing. Iranian fertility rate has experienced a dramatic decline in recent decades, and now is below-replacement level. Fertility transition in Iran is related to socio-cultural, economic and political changes. Using micro-census data and survey, the results of article show culture and cultural values, as the basis of human behaviors, plays an important role in shaping fertility behavior. Culture provide the rules of interpretation and meaning construction, that people depending on them, and in coping with socio-economic conditions, regulate their reproductive behaviors. The article concluded that the interaction of cultural and institutional/ structural forces leads to below- replacement level of fertility in Iran. Thus, increasing fertility to above replacement level, is multidimensional and complex policy-making process. It involves adopting and implement of sustainable family-friendly policies related to childbearing desirability, childbearing feasibility, and abilities to parenting UR - https://rahbordfarhangi.csr.ir/article_123318.html L1 - https://rahbordfarhangi.csr.ir/article_123318_e2487c659ebc64c436c71dd0b6b2fdc5.pdf ER -