Household Structure and Family Strategies

这项研究探讨了家庭在家庭中的变化方式， 应对大规模的社会变革。 研究者 将利用1850年至2010年期间美国人口普查的数据， 1900年，为家庭绘制了 加州洛杉矶环境的改造 从1850年的一个小的、孤立的国内经济， 1900年的市中心。 通过研究 性别、世代和阶级地位，一方面， 家庭组成、教育和就业， 另一方面，研究人员可以测试一个理论模型， 家庭在以下条件下履行其责任： 重大经济动荡。 年洛杉矶的人口普查数据 世纪后期提供了一个战略切入点， 将家庭变化与大规模的社会变化联系起来。 这项研究将检验现有的关于家庭的假设 战略，也就是家庭做出的选择， 家庭成员应该工作以及决定谁 应该去上学结婚生子本研究是 重要的是，它调查了 更大的经济影响了替代品的范围， 家庭和个人做出选择。通过查看 家庭决定是家庭成员之间相互作用的结果， 社会结构和个人选择，这项研究可以 有助于我们理解家庭生活以及它如何 在美国被改造。

This research examines the ways in which families change in response to large scale social changes. The investigator will draw on data from U.S. census schedules between 1850 and 1900 to chart the consequences, for families, of the transformation of the Los Angeles, California environment from a small, isolated, domestic economy in 1850 to a major urban center in 1900. By examining relationships between gender, generation, and class position, on the one hand, and household composition, education, and employment, on the other, the investigator can test a theoretical model of how families meet their responsibilities under conditions of major economic upheaval. The census data for Los Angeles in the late 19th century provide a strategic entry point in which to link family change with large-scale social change. This study will test existing assumptions about family strategies, that is, the choices families make as to which family members should work as well as decisions about who should go to school, marry, have children. This research is important because it investigates the manner in which the larger economy affects the range of alternatives from which families and individuals make their choices. By viewing family decisions as a consequence of the interplay between social structure and individual choice, this research can contribute to our understanding of family life and how it has been transformed in the United States.