Dissertation Research: Cultural Values and Demographic Implications of Attitudes Towards Patenrty in the U.S.

本论文研究将允许专门从事人口统计学的文化人类学家研究男性对父权的态度及其对生育决定的贡献。该项目将对来自加州圣克拉拉县的两组年龄分别为25岁和35岁的男性进行研究，描述男性对父权的价值观，并将这些价值观与社会阶层、机会结构和生活史联系起来，用民族志的观点阐释大规模生育调查中的人口统计和态度数据。这项研究很重要，因为大多数关于生育的研究都是针对女性的，但男性的价值观和态度也同样重要。因此，对男性的深入研究将提供有价值的信息，可以用来识别以前研究中的任何偏见。

This dissertation research will allow a cultural anthropologist specialized in demography to study male attitudes towards paternity and their contributions to fertility decisions. The project will study two cohorts of men, aged 25 and 35, from Santa Clara County, California, to describe the values men have about paternity, relate these values to social class, opportunity structure and life history, and illuminate demographic and attitudinal data from large scale surveys of fertility with this ethnographic view. This research is important because most studies of fertility deal with women, yet the values and attitudes of men are equally important. This in-depth study of males will thus contribute valuable information that can serve to identify any bias in previous studies.