Marriage, Women, and Social Stratification: A Theoretical Critique

Haller, Max

doi:10.1086/227316

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“…Marriage/cohabitation rates reflect both the physical boundaries separating groups (or the opportunity to interact) as well as status differences between groups (i.e., do relationships form, given the opportunity?) (Haller 1981;Qian and Lichter 2007). 3 More generally, a social space approach is useful because it offers a holistic view of the racial/ethnic social structure.…”

Section: Salient Hispanic Dimension and Weak Racial Dimension: Panethmentioning

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A Social Space Approach to Testing Complex Hypotheses: The Case of Hispanic Marriage Patterns in the United States

Smith

2017

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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Where do individuals identifying as Hispanic fit in the racial landscape of the United States? The answer offered by past work is complex: The empirical results do not lend themselves to simple interpretation as no single hypothesis fits the Hispanic case very well. Instead, Hispanic integration is described as mixtures of different archetypical hypotheses, like panethnic formation, white assimilation, and racialized assimilation. My goal is to develop a formal framework to help make sense of this complex picture. I extend past work by showing which combination of integration processes (panethnic formation, white assimilation, etc.) best characterizes Hispanic marriage patterns. I make two analytical contributions. First, I organize past Hispanic hypotheses, both archetypical and blended, into a single theoretical framework defined by the salience of race and Hispanic ethnicity. Second, I parametize this theoretical framework using latent social space models. In this way, I am able to specify a set of interconnected, complex hypotheses in a tractable manner. I follow past work and use marriage/cohabitation data to test the hypotheses. Using American Community Survey data (2010)(2011)(2012), I find that Hispanic marriage/cohabitation patterns suggest high salience on both race and Hispanic ethnicity. Thus, categories like black-Mexican or white-Cuban represent relationally distinct social categories-distinct from both non-Hispanic racial categories (e.g., black or white) and Hispanic categories of a different racial identity.

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Section: Salient Hispanic Dimension and Weak Racial Dimension: Panethmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Social Space Approach to Testing Complex Hypotheses: The Case of Hispanic Marriage Patterns in the United States

Smith

2017

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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“…It is common in historical research to use only men's occupations as indicators of social status. Women's occupations were not validly and reliably recorded in the 19 th century, perhaps because their social standing was determined much more by the title stated by their fathers and husbands than by their own occupations (Haller, 1981;Herr, 1995). In fact, many women who did not 'have to' work were probably economically privileged so that failing to mention an occupation can to some extent be considered as a status symbol (Matthijs, 2001).…”

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The Effect of Fertility Limitation on Intergenerational Social Mobility: The Quality–quantity Trade-Off During the Demographic Transition

Bavel

2005

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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Summary.The hypothesis that family size limitation by parents enhances the upward mobility chances of their children in (post)industrial populations has a long-standing record in many disciplines, including sociology and economics, as well as evolutionary anthropology and social biology. Yet the empirical record supporting or contradicting the theory is surprisingly limited. The aim of this contribution is to develop a test of the effect of family size limitation on children's intergenerational mobility. This test is applied to an urban population in Belgium that was in the process of experiencing its demographic transition, including the decline of fertility, at the end of the 19 th century. The results indicate that the effect of family size was strong, even after controlling for parental social status as well as birth order. Surprisingly, the effects of birth order and family size appear to be largely independent.

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“…An example of a macrolevel approach is Haller's (1981; proposition to consider marriage and family as institutions which are not only dependent on the outcome of class formation and class conflict, but also contribute crucially to the maintenance and reproduction of social inequality. According to this view, it seems necessary not only to take into consideration one married couple and their children, but a sequence of marital and familial units in order to understand the relations between family and stratification: ''The reason that the phenomenon of 'social inheritance' encompasses more than two generations does not lie, however, in the peculiar character of marriage and family relationships.…”

Section: Sociological Family Theory In Austria In the 1980smentioning

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Family Sociology in Austria:

Hörl

1996

Marriage & Family Review

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Marriage, Women, and Social Stratification: A Theoretical Critique

Cited by 43 publications

References 83 publications

A Social Space Approach to Testing Complex Hypotheses: The Case of Hispanic Marriage Patterns in the United States

A Social Space Approach to Testing Complex Hypotheses: The Case of Hispanic Marriage Patterns in the United States

The Effect of Fertility Limitation on Intergenerational Social Mobility: The Quality–quantity Trade-Off During the Demographic Transition

Family Sociology in Austria:

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