Doctoral Dissertation Research: Cultural Representations of Paternity Among Poor, Unmarried Parents

小行星9400857拉蒙 这是一个奖项下的赠款为改善博士论文研究计划。 这项研究将考察贫穷的未婚父母中父权的文化表现。 该研究在新泽西对收入在贫困线125%或以下的未婚母亲和父亲（黑人和白色）进行了60次采访，调查了他们对父亲权利和责任的解释类别。 它还探讨了是否可以解释的社会人口特征和文化或结构环境的受访者的不同表现的父亲。 这种分析将涉及这样的社会学问题：1）父权对当代社会的穷人有什么意义？ 2)从未结婚的父母是否认为法律的父亲身份在文化上是规范性的，或者他们是否接受母子二人制或以母亲为中心的大家庭作为同样可行的文化选择？ 3)对于未婚父母来说，最近非婚生育的增加是否象征着对改善妇女社会条件的文化反应，或者是新家庭安排中性别不平等的再现？ %%% 这项研究将有助于家庭社会学、性别角色社会学和当代城市文化社会学。 鉴于美国目前约有四分之一的生育是在婚外发生的，这项研究还将有助于建立一个知识基础，决策者将在此基础上决定公众对不断变化的社会状况和问题的反应。 除了通过研究取得的科学成果外，该奖项还将在物质上帮助一位非常有前途的学生完成博士研究。论文 因此，它有助于国家未来的科学人才和下一代社会科学家的全面培训。 ***

9400857 Lamont This is an award under the Grants for Improving Doctoral Dissertation Research Program. The research will examine cultural representations of paternity among poor, unmarried parents. Drawing on 60 interviews in New Jersey with never- married mothers and fathers (black and white) with incomes at or below 125% of the poverty line, the study investigates the categories into which they interpret the rights and responsibilities of fatherhood. It also explores whether different representations of paternity can be explained by the socio-demographic characteristics and cultural or structural environments of respondents. This analysis will speak to such sociological questions as: 1) What is the significance of paternity for the poor in contemporary society? 2) Do never- married parents perceive legal fatherhood to be culturally normative, or do they accept the mother-child dyad or the matrifocal, extended family as equally viable cultural alternatives? 3) For unmarried parents, does the recent increase in nonmarital childbearing symbolize a cultural response to improving social conditions for women or the reproduction of gender inequality within new family arrangement? %%% This research will contribute to the sociology of the family, of gender roles, and of contemporary urban culture. Given that about a quarter of all births in the United States now occur outside of marriage, the research will also contribute to the knowledge base upon which policy makers will decide the public response to changing social conditions and problems. In addition to the scientific gains to be achieved by the research, this award will materially assist a highly promising student in completing research for the Ph.D. dissertation. Thus it contributes to the future scientific manpower of the nation and the thorough training of the next generation of social scientists. ***