Women's Work and European Fertility Patterns

Tilly, Louise A.; Scott, Joan Wallach; Cohen, Miriam

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“…8 For the whole of West Africa, the mean birth rate is 49 per 1,000, and very few countries, even among those characterised by the most traditional forms of agriculture, go beyond 52 per 1,000 (United Nations, 1982). 9 As regards demographic change in the history of Europe, notwithstanding the dispute still going on, the positive relation between economic advantages of offspring and high birth rate seems clearly to emerge (Tilly et al, 1976;Caldwell, 1982;Lehning, 1984;Kertzer and Hogan, 1989).…”

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Family, marriage and divorce in a Hausa community: a sociological model

Solivetti¹

1994

Africa

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The aim of this article is to show how a ‘traditional’ society may produce a household system in which the structural tensions are no less intense than in the Western world. Muslim Hausa society (in northern Nigeria) has one of the highest rates of divorce (and remarriage) in the world. An explanation is sought here in terms of the economic and organisational requirements of a subsistence farming system that is always potentially short of labour. Divorce is a solution to otherwise unacceptable pressures, particularly on young women, in a society that requires them to be subordinate and marginal within the extended family. The data presented here were collected between 1979 and 1989 in the Niger valley of Sokoto State in northern Nigeria.

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Family, marriage and divorce in a Hausa community: a sociological model

Solivetti¹

1994

Africa

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“…For a long time, the interpretations of illegitimate children and their mothers' position have followed the ideas of Tilly, Scott, and Cohen (1976): They interpreted illegitimacy as the misfortune of young women, especially those who were far from home and had lost the protections and constraints provided by the family. Iutaka, Bock, and Berardo (1975) have suggested that the social status of women (as measured by the father's occupation) appeared to be the most significant background factor related to illegitimacy.…”

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Generations, social homogamy and stratification in Finland, 1700–1910

Roikonen

Häkkinen

2018

The History of the Family

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This study analyses social heterogamy in western and southern Finland during the early stages of industrialisation, from 1700 to 1910. Marriage patterns are examined by comparing the social classes of spouses' parents, which can be understood as the social origin of the spouse. The rate of heterogamy within the freeholder class was only 19.8%, whereas it was 71.1% in the upper classes, 59.7% in the tenant class and 76.5% in the labour class. In addition, only roughly 20-30% of grooms whose fathers were landowners married brides from lower social classes. Certain individual-and family-level characteristics increased the odds of a heterogamous marriage: remarrying, age difference, being an illegitimate child or a single mother, and the first marriages of those in the labour class. Regarding macro-level variables, we found that higher rates of emigration and poor-relief recipients, along with having a larger Finnish-speaking population, led to higher levels of heterogamy. Other issues increasing the odds of heterogamy included living in the more urbanised or industrialised regions and moving to different regions. This study identified strict marriage patterns, which did not significantly change with respect to heterogamy. Nevertheless, indications exist that industrialisation and urbanisation began eroding the prevailing traditions.

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“…Several authors have suggested that these rural courtship patterns per sisted among rural migrants to urban areas and in areas where agricul tural change was converting petty proprietors to rural proletarians (Neuman, 1972; Tilly, Scott, and Cohen, 1976;Phayer, 1974;Lee, 1977). In these new situations social control over male behavior was greatly reduced.…”

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confidence: 99%