Exploring demographic decision-making. Raw materials towards understanding the effective logics

Premise
Beyond a cognitive modelling
(Modelling collective behavior: the mass and irrationality; The logics of social action: two levels of interpretation; Rational choice: New Home Economics and its pitfalls)
Normative Logics. Modernity and family
(Routines, drifts, and the Inert Area; The speading zone of emotional indifference; A persisting bipolarity of European family patterns; Intergenerational solidarity and the strong family; 'Asabiyyah; The many facets of familism; Current changes in the intergenerational blood pact)
Affective logics. What does produce discontinuity
(Meaning giving systems: the re-emerging Identity; Transitional behavior as a recognition-oriented action; Collective apocalypses: acted values an identity in action; Heimweh and the uprooting; Three ways of coping with long-term criticalities; Post-mod: cognitive self-fulfillment, a fuzzy state of mind; Losing control, shifting locus, and the risk perception)
Patterns of logics change
(From attitudes to states of mind; What are moods?; Inner life histories; Crisis dispositional states; How do moods work?; States that are essentially by-products; Lexicographic orders and a watermill shift machinery)
Change triggering mechanisms
(Inner conflicts; Reducing dissonances; Limits of a model based on a merely cognitive dissonance; From delay to removal. Mood-focused strategies; Paradoxes and double binds; Denial and disconfirmation; A mood-focused, time-leggend behavior model)
Why is it not so easy to dive in a pool
(Step-by-step. Down-drifts and chronic syndromes; Change as a two-stage process, moods as interceptors; Relaxing the control, losing control; Re-engaging the clitch; Flexible generations and new social polarizations)
Post-scripta: Beyond a life-course horizon
(Disentangling interweaving generations; Generation waves and echoes; Memory and primary socialization; Attachment and care; Three-generational drifts (and their natural therapy))
References
Name index
Subject index.