Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from September 1993

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from September 1993

Agricultural reform and its impact on Chinese rural families, 1978-1989.
September 22, 1993... William J. Goode, in World Revolution and Family Patterns (1970), suggested that, with industrialization and urbanization, the extended family tends to be replaced by the nuclear family; the traditional authority of parents over children and the...

Immigrant families in Australia.
September 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION There are two major theoretical approaches to understanding immigrants and immigrant families in contemporary capitalist societies. The assimilation school (Park, 1926, Gordon, 1964, Glazer and Moynihan, 1970) focuses on the way...

Migrant and immigrant families in Canada: state coercion and legal control in the formation of ethnic families.
September 22, 1993... Consider the following two statements about particular immigrant families by Thomas Sowell, the noted American economist and ethnic historian: Southern Italians have long had extremely strong ties to the family, as the only social institution...

Indo-Canadian families historical constraints and contemporary contradictions.
September 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION Much research on the ethnic family in general and the Indo-Canadian family in particular has focused on its structure and change, especially in regard to decision-making, residential arrangement, dating and the emergence of a new...

The South African Chinese family.
September 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION What are the family types which developed among the South African Chinese? Does the neo-Confucian ideal family exist in South Africa? How does a racialized society like South Africa constrain or facilitate the formation of the...

Labor reproduction and the family under advanced capitalism: female labor force participation and fertility in twentieth century Canada.
September 22, 1993... Like the family in other advanced capitalist countries,(1) the Canadian family in recent decades has experienced profound changes that are sometimes attributed to the influx of women into the paid labour force. These changes are evident in the...

Scientific parenthood: the mental hygiene movement and the reform of Canadian families, 1925-1950.
September 22, 1993... INTRODUCTION Despite a voluminous sociological literature on the modern family, little attention has been paid to the ways in which roles and functions are developed and shaped. It is often assumed that knowledge related to family relations...

"Here comes the Bride": the making of a "modern traditional" wedding in western culture.
September 22, 1993... Changes in marriage and family dynamics during the past 25 years have given rise to new questions for sociologists of the family. Following legislative changes in the 1960s, the divorce rate in Canada has increased steadily, so that up to one...