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Publikováno v:
Demographic Research, Vol 26, p 10 (2012)
BACKGROUND This paper is motivated by the theory that developmental idealism has been disseminated globally and has become an international force for family and demographic change. Developmental idealism is a set of cultural beliefs and values about
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Many dimensions of family life have changed. Age at marriage has risen, arranged marriages and extended families have declined, intergenerational relationships have been altered, and contraceptive usage has become widespread. Until now, most explanat
In an era when half of marriages end in divorce, cohabitation has become more commonplace and those who do get married are doing so at an older age. So why do people marry when they do? And why do some couples choose to cohabit? A team of expert fam
Publikováno v:
Sociology of Development. 9:1-32
This article examines a half-century of trends in family attitudes and beliefs in the United States, including attitudes toward gender, marriage, childbearing, cohabitation, sex outside marriage, divorce, and same-sex relations. These trends are view
Autor:
Serap Kavas, Arland Thornton
Publikováno v:
Sociology of Development. 8:318-350
Using data from a national survey of urban Turks, we examine whether people report an understanding and acceptance of developmental idealism (DI) messages about the relationship between development and family characteristics. We examine two different
Autor:
Linda Young-DeMarco, Arland Thornton, Nathalie E. Williams, Christina Hughes, Prem Bhandari, Jeffrey Swindle
Publikováno v:
Migr Dev
This paper brings together both theoretically and empirically two strands of social science research: migration and developmental idealism. The paper is motivated by the fact that there are extensive bodies of research about migration and about devel
Autor:
Linda Young-DeMarco, Jeffrey Swindle, Arland Thornton, Christina Hughes, Cathy Sun, Nathalie E. Williams, Prem Bhandari
Publikováno v:
Int Migr Rev
The study of social capital has been one of the strongest areas of recent advance in migration research, but there are still many questions about how it works and why it has varying effects in studies of different places. In this article, we address
Autor:
Nathalie E. Williams, Christina Hughes, Arland Thornton, Linda Young-DeMarco, Jeffrey Swindle, Prem Bhandari
Publikováno v:
Int J Sociol
This study focuses on attitudes related to fulfilling family obligations and their relationships to migration behavior. We hypothesize that men who highly value fulfilling family obligations will be more likely to migrate in order to fulfill material
Autor:
Linda Young-DeMarco, Jeffrey Swindle, Christina Hughes, Prem Bhandari, Arland Thornton, Nathalie E. Williams, Cathy Sun
Publikováno v:
Popul Res Policy Rev
We investigate influences of fatalistic beliefs on domestic and international migration in Nepal, positing that fatalistic beliefs may affect decisions to migrate and where to locate. Fatalism is the belief that human outcomes are preordained by forc
Publikováno v:
J Fam Issues
Recent theory suggests that developmental idealism (DI) is an important source of variation and change in family behavior, yet this suggestion is largely untested at the individual level. This study examines the influence of DI beliefs and values on