Table_1_The agency of fertility plans.DOCX

Fertility plans are a prominent area for agency research, and are a clear example of a misalignment between resources and agency capacity. We relied both on the idea of conversion factors of the Capability Approach and the pragmatist tradition of temporal-oriented agency to propose a framework for the study of fertility agency as the conversion process of resources into plans and behavior. We outlined said framework by using a unique dataset on fertility plans composed of open and closed questions from an Italian sample. Economic factors and imaginaries related to children and family represented the vast majority of (hindering and enabling) conversion factors. The notion of conversion factors is crucial for disentangling the network of heterogeneous elements involved in fertility agency: it allows focus to be shifted from structural factors related to social position and psychological characteristics to more situated elements that enable agency capacity.

生育计划是能动性研究的重要议题，亦是资源与能动性能力不匹配的典型例证。本研究同时借鉴能力进路（Capability Approach）的转换因子理念，以及面向时间维度的能动性实用主义研究传统，提出了将生育能动性视为资源向生育计划与行为转化过程的研究框架。我们依托一项来自意大利受访者样本的独有生育计划数据集——该数据集包含开放式与封闭式问题，对上述框架进行了阐释。与儿童及家庭相关的经济因素与社会想象，构成了绝大多数（阻碍性与促进性）转换因子。转换因子这一概念，对于厘清生育能动性所涉及的异质性要素网络至关重要：它能够将研究焦点从与社会地位、心理特征相关的结构性因素，转向更具情境性的、可赋能能动性能力的要素。