Reconsidering the Northwest European Family System: Living Arrangements of the Aged in Comparative Historical Perspective.
Reconsidering the Northwest European Family System: Living Arrangements of the Aged in Comparative Historical Perspective.
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重新思考西北欧家庭体系：比较历史视角下的老年人生活安排。
DOI：
10.1111/j.1728-4457.2009.00275.x
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发表时间：
2009
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2.5
通讯作者：
Ruggles,Steven
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作者：
Ruggles,Steven
在过去的四十年里，历史学家和人口学家认为，历史上的西北欧和北美有一个独特的弱家庭系统，其特点是新地方婚姻和核心家庭结构。这项分析使用了来自34个国家的84次历史和当代人口普查的最新微观数据，以评估历史上西北欧和北美老年人的居住行为是否真正与众不同。结果表明，在简单控制农业就业和人口结构的情况下，19世纪西北欧和北美与20世纪发展中国家之间的老年人生活安排的可比措施几乎没有系统性差异。这些发现对西北欧洲人和北美人对核心家庭有特殊偏好的假设提出了质疑。
During the past four decades, historians and demographers have argued that historical Northwest Europe and North America had a unique weak‐family system characterized by neolocal marriage and nuclear family structure. This analysis uses newly available micro‐data from 84 historical and contemporary censuses of 34 countries to evaluate whether the residential behavior of the aged in historical Northwest Europe and North America was truly distinctive. The results show that with simple controls for agricultural employment and demographic structure, comparable measures of the living arrangements of the aged show little systematic difference between nineteenth‐century Northwest Europe and North America and twentieth‐century developing countries. These findings cast doubt on the hypothesis that Northwest Europeans and North Americans had an exceptional historical pattern of preference for nuclear families.