Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from September 1995

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from September 1995

Kinship and modernization in developing societies: the emergence of instrumentalized kinship.
September 22, 1995... Theoretical Considerations The effect of modernization on kinship structure and the extended family in developing societies is a controversial issue. For a long time this field of research was dominated by the "convergence approach",...

University modernizing effects on Libyan family and culture.
September 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION In this paper I propose to treat the interplay of traditional and modernistic forces affecting Libyan educational patterns. Within this perspective the discussion and argument will focus mainly on Libyan traditional...

Changes in norms and behavior concerning extended kin in Taipei, Taiwan, 1963-1991.
September 22, 1995... Students of the family and kinship in various societies have long been concerned with the strength of ties among extended kin-relatives of blood, marriage and adoption through one's father, mother, siblings, spouse and children. Family...

Attitudes and sex-role perceptions among working couples in India.
September 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION This study contrasts the attitudes and sex-role perceptions of working couples differing in terms of wives' job status (career vs. non-career wives) and belonging to two socio-cultural settings in India which can be...

From latent surplus to changing norms: fertility behavior of the Israeli Bedouin along the nomadism-sedentarism continuum.
September 22, 1995... During the last four decades, the Israeli Bedouin of the Negev have been put under an enormous pressure by economic, social and geographical processes. They have been transformed from a typical Third World pastoral-agricultural semi-nomadic...

Housework in Canada: the national picture.
September 22, 1995... Recent survey research indicates that women are still overwhelmingly responsible for, and primarily carry out, the chief household chores (Coverman and Sheley, 1986; Berardo et al., 1987; Michelson, 1988). Most importantly, there appears to be...

Home work: an examination of the sexual division of labor in the urban households of the East Indian and African Guyanese.
September 22, 1995... Studies of kinship African peoples in the Americas have focused on examining the "problem" of so-called disorganized family life amongst the lower classes. Essentially, the debate has evolved around questions of culture versus structure. In...

U.S. fathering behaviors within a cross-cultural context: an evaluation by an alternate benchmark.
September 22, 1995... Within the last three decades, there have been changing expectations, in many quarters, concerning the role of the father-figure, especially the U.S. father-figure. For reviews of the recent history of the U.S. father-figure and the tacit and...

Family support services in Sweden.
September 22, 1995... THE CHILD HEALTH CARE PROGRAM The current Swedish family care program is one of the most admired European models of social democracy and despite financial restrictions due to worldwide recession, the programs described here seem securely...

Anatomy of Love: The Natural History of Monogamy, Adultery, and Divorce.
September 22, 1995... Helen Fisher first made a mark with her book The Sex Contract. In that book she used sociobiological theory to explain the relationship between the sexes. In this new book she explains, using the same theoretical base, the evolution of...

The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions.
September 22, 1995... The Sacred Hoop is a collection of essays, first published in 1986, that eloquently debunks Eurocentric interpretations of traditional tribal lifestyles. Professor Allen, an American Indian of Languna Pueblo and Sioux heritage, tells of...

Human Reproduction: Principles, Practices, Policies.
September 22, 1995... The news media confronts us routinely with new social and ethical challenges on the frontiers of human reproduction. In February 1994, it was the birth of twins to a 59 year old British woman. A few months earlier, it was the release in Canada...

The Politics of Abortion.
September 22, 1995... The politics of abortion in Canada pivot on a tie vote in the Canadian Senate on January 31, 1991, which defeated B-43, An Act Respecting Abortion, ending, in a legislative stalemate, twentyfive years of political debate concerning abortion....

Single-Parent Families.
September 22, 1995... Recently, single-parent families have been the subject of much debate and controversy--being blamed for a large portion of children's malaise and other contemporary evils. Central to much of the concern is a belief that single parent families...

Family Patterns: Gender Relations.
September 22, 1995... The author of Family Patterns notes, and I agree, that what has been missing in undergraduate sociology of the family courses until now has been a collection of readings written from a similar perspective, so that the student is exposed to a...

Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era.
September 22, 1995... Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era, edited by Deborah Davis and Stevan Harrell, provides a comprehensive overview of the many changes in the contemporary Chinese family system caused by Post-Mao economic reforms and the one child policy. The...