Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from March 1993

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from March 1993

Gender inequality and industrial development: the household connection.
March 22, 1993... 1989 Assembling for Development: The Maquila Industry in Mexico and the U.S.A. Boston: Unwin Hyman. Sokoloff, N. 1980 Between Money and Love. New York: Praeger. Staudt, K. 1986 "Economic Change and Ideological Lag in Households of...

Is there a socioeconomic dimension to household extension in Latin America?
March 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION The aim of this paper is to investigate whether and how urban/rural residence or, in urban areas, husband's occupation, is related to household extension in six Latin American countries (Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican...

Household structure and marriage in urban China: 1900-1982.
March 22, 1993... Although some family sociologists (Lang, 1946; Levy, 1949; Yang, 1959; Goode, 1963) point out the family revolution in pre-1949 China, most current China experts either advocate or accept the notion that the significant shift from a joint towards...

Interest in marriage among Canadian students at the end of the eighties.
March 22, 1993... "Why buy a cow, when milk is so cheap", was a male sexist comment on marriage when "shacking up" was common during the 1940s and 1950s. "Why get married?" is a more serious question now, when it is expected that both men and women will have...

Ethnic cultural retention and transmission among first generation Hindu Asian Indians in a Canadian prairie city.
March 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION Studies dealing with ethnic groups in North America in general indicate that there is a range of variation with regard to the extent to which they endeavour to preserve and perpetuate ethnic cultural heritage. This can range from...

Iraqi rural women's participation in domestic decision-making.
March 22, 1993... Introduction In this paper I attempt to explore some of the principal socio-cultural trends bearing on the widening Iraqi rural women's concern with decision-making. The main inferences and views formed here have been drawn from field material...

Parenting following divorce: a comparison of black and white single mothers.
March 22, 1993... Because of the growing black-white differential in the rate of divorce and separation, the lessor likelihood of remarriage among blacks, and the well-established relationship between nonmarital status and the economic and emotional well-being of...

Effects of socio-demographic variables on birth intervals in Ghana.
March 22, 1993... High fertility has been characteristic of African population trends over the last 40 years or so. Because of the close link between the size and growth of population and the demand for social services, the structure of the labor force, the level...

The State of the Child in Ontario (The Child, Youth and Family Policy Research Centre).
March 22, 1993... The State of the Child in Ontario is a well-chosen title for a project by an innovative, energetic, three year old (in 1991) research institute: the Child, Youth, and Family Policy Research Centre. Supported in part by the Ontario Ministry of...

Constructing the Child Viewer: A History of the American Discourse on Television and Children 1950-1980.
March 22, 1993... In constructing The Child Viewer, Carmen Luke has undertaken a herculean task inasmuch as she attempts a discourse on children and their relationship with mass media by tracing the historical involvement of film, radio, and comics with children's...

Growing Up Agreeably: Bonerate Childhood Observed.
March 22, 1993... Growing Up Agreeably describes childhood in Miang Tuu, a village of about 200 located on a tiny island in the Malay archipelago. Daily life in the village centers around the collection of food from fields and sea, to which everyone, including...

Adolescent Stress: Causes and Consequences.
March 22, 1993... The many problems experienced by adolescents in our time (particularly in the U.S., but also in other societies) are well documented: rising suicide rates; increasing incidence of depression, eating disorders, and other mental health problems;...

Adolescents, Family and Friends.
March 22, 1993... Despite statistical evidence that the previously soaring divorce rate in the United States appears to have leveled off, the numbers of children living in single-parent households, many below the poverty level, are increasing rapidly. A recent...

Daughters, Fathers, and the Novel: The Sentimental Romance of Heterosexuality.
March 22, 1993... What Levi-Strauss failed to mention in his structuralist formulation of the law of exogamy - the exchange of women between men who seek to form kinship bonds - was that desire begins at home. Levi-Strauss was not interested in the subject...

Thanks to God and the Revolution: The Oral History of a Nicaraguan Family.
March 22, 1993... For students of the family, there is often little information on the internal workings of the family in other cultures. There are population statistics that can tell us of family size and we can get a few ideas of cultural differences in courting...

World Population Growth and Aging: Demographic Trends in the Late Twentieth Century.
March 22, 1993... World Population Growth and Aging is a sourcebook of demographic information/data. The majority of the book consists of tabular material; there are three sets of tables - a Summary Table, Tabulations Based on United Nations Data and Estimates,...

Care for the Elderly: Significant Innovations in Three European Countries.
March 22, 1993... This book is broader than its title suggests. Rather it is quite a through comparison and assessment of current long term care policies in the Netherlands, Sweden and Britain. Each chapter is written by an expert from the respective country. The...

Risking Old Age in America.
March 22, 1993... In this insightful volume Richard Margolis has left a legacy of understanding of the hazards of old age in a society characterized by the uneven distribution of wealth. At the same time he has provided a portrait of the indomitable ability of...

The Family Experience: A Reader in Cultural Diversity.
March 22, 1993... Despite the claim to universality in references to "the family", sociological study of this institution has been largely dominated by a white, middle-class perspective. The editor's aim in creating this anthology is to correct the balance by...

Preschool in Three Cultures: Japan, China and the United States.
March 22, 1993... Are preschools microcosms of the cultures in which they exist? Social scientists in general are likely to answer this question with obvious affirmation. Three anthropologists associated with the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii, with...

Women in the Japanese Workplace.
March 22, 1993... This book presents a comparison of blue-collar women working in Japanese electronic assembly plants in Japan, Britain, and Ireland. The comparison is not a rigorous scientific study, but instead consists of information drawn from personal...