Ideological Pairings in Couples and Family Processes

夫妻和家庭过程中的意识形态配对

• 批准号: 459056529
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Daniela Grunow
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Soziologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/459056529?language=en
• 关键词: Ideological; Pairings; Couples; Family; Processes

There is broad agreement that gender ideology (gender attitudes, norms, values) is closely linked with family- and employment related behaviors. A rich body of literature demonstrates such linkages, e.g. with respect to couples’ paid and unpaid work-divisions, and to a lesser extent regarding family formation and dissolution. Yet, two major research gaps remain. The first is a theoretically under-developed couple perspective, the second concerns endogeneity in empirical studies. The project aims at addressing both issues. Hypotheses, research questions & objectives: First, although most research assumes that gender ideology affects couple-level outcomes (i.e. gendered work divisions in families, union trajectories, fertility), gender ideology of only one partner is typically measured. We center this project on the argument that both partners’ ideologies need to be incorporated, and interactively so (ideological pairings) to fully capture gender ideologies’ effects on such couple-level outcomes. More specifically, we hypothesize that whether partners agree or disagree on gender ideologies will matter for their work-divisions and family transitions. Ideological pairings will also mediate the effect of other factors, for instance partners’ socio-economic resources, on the studied outcomes. Second, longitudinal studies using advanced methodology to account for reciprocal effects between ideologies and, for instance, gendered work-divisions, are rare. Thus, whether ideology is associated with work-divisions via causal linkages or via selection processes or reverse causality, remains to date unclear. We will address these open questions and provide both conceptual and empirical advances to the field, in four research packages. First, we develop an analytical and empirical framework to assess couples, as a meaningful unit, by drawing on life-course theory. To date such a framework is lacking in family demography and the gendered work-division literature. In a theoretical paper, we will provide such a conceptualization, with a specific focus on how individuals’ and couples joint gender ideologies are intertwined with life course transitions, and couples’ work divisions. Empirically, we will use several high-quality panel studies (e.g. HILDA, Pairfam, Swiss Household Panel, Understanding Societies) and cutting edge-methodology (latent class modeling, SEM, growth curve modeling, fixed effects) to examine, first, how ideological pairings in couples are distributed across time and space. Second, we will assess whether these pairings affect gendered paid and unpaid work divisions and family outcomes such as childbearing and union dissolution. Level of originality & innovation: Our project will be groundbreaking theoretically and empirically for both family demography and family sociology. Primary researchers involved: Natalie Nitsche and Daniela Grunow will lead the project as Co-PIs.

人们普遍认为，性别意识形态(性别态度、规范、价值观)与与家庭和就业有关的行为密切相关。大量文献表明了这种联系，例如关于夫妻的有偿和无偿工作分工，以及在较小程度上关于家庭形成和解散的联系。然而，仍然存在两个主要的研究空白。第一种是理论上不发达的夫妻视角，第二种是实证研究中的内生性。该项目旨在解决这两个问题。假设、研究问题和目标：首先，尽管大多数研究假设性别意识形态影响夫妻层面的结果(即家庭中的性别分工、结合轨迹、生育率)，但只有一个伴侣的性别意识形态通常是衡量的。我们这个项目的中心论点是，双方的意识形态需要被纳入，并互动地如此(意识形态配对)，以充分捕捉性别意识形态对这种夫妻层面结果的影响。更具体地说，我们假设，伴侣在性别意识形态上的一致或不同将对他们的工作分工和家庭过渡产生影响。意识形态配对也将中介其他因素的影响，例如合作伙伴的社会经济资源，对研究结果的影响。其次，使用先进的方法来解释意识形态之间的相互影响的纵向研究很少，例如，性别分工。因此，意识形态是否通过因果联系或通过选择过程或反向因果关系与分工联系在一起，至今仍不清楚。我们将解决这些悬而未决的问题，并在四个研究包中提供该领域的概念和经验进展。首先，我们建立了一个分析和经验的框架来评估夫妇，作为一个有意义的单位，借鉴生命历程理论。到目前为止，在家庭人口学和按性别划分的劳动分工文献中缺乏这样的框架。在一篇理论论文中，我们将提供这样的概念化，特别关注个人和夫妇共同的性别意识形态是如何与人生历程转变和夫妇的工作分工交织在一起的。在实证上，我们将使用几个高质量的小组研究(例如，HILDA、PIIRFAM、瑞士家庭小组、了解社会)和前沿方法(潜在阶级模型、扫描电子显微镜、成长曲线模型、固定效应)来检验：第一，夫妻之间的意识形态配对是如何在时间和空间上分布的。其次，我们将评估这些配对是否会影响按性别划分的有偿和无偿工作分工以及生育和工会解散等家庭结果。原创性和创新性的水平：我们的项目将在家庭人口学和家庭社会学方面具有开创性的理论和经验。主要研究人员参与：Natalie Nitsche和Daniela Grunow将作为联合PI领导该项目。