摘要:

Although considerable significance has been attributed to sibling relations by behavioral scientists, little empirical research has been conducted regarding the interaction of siblings with each other. Several factors account for the paucity of such research. Social problems involving children have focused attention on the adult-child dimension. Freudian thought has stressed the regimes of infancy, not socializing influences during childhood and youth. Occupational pressures upon family sociologists have prompted an emphasis on dating, courtship, and marital interaction. The attenuation of kinship and certain methodological problems have made study difficult. Nonetheless, research is needed concerning this neglected aspect of family life.

ISSN:0430-0696    

DOI:10.1093/sf/42.3.279

出版商:The University of North Carolina Press    

年代:1964

数据来源: OUP

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The editors deeply regret that a dislocation of type which occurred after page proof had been approved led to a serious scrambling of lines in the article by Professor Ibrahim Abu-Lughod entitled “Mass Media and Egyptian Village Life” which appeared in the October 1963 issue ofSocial Forces. The editors and the printer extend to Professor Abu-Lughod and to our readers their sincere apologies for this unfortunate scramble of type.Fortunately all of the dislocation of type occurred in one column, namely column 2 of page 99. If the reader will observe the following simple instructions he will be able to read the column as it should have been. Count the first 17 lines from the top of column 2, page 99, bracket these and mark them “section 3.” Bracket the next 20 lines and mark them “section 2.” The remaining 15 lines constitute “section 1.” When these sections are read in 1, 2, 3 order everything falls neatly into place.Our printers are providing Professor Abu-Lughod with a supply of corrected copies of reprints of his paper. Readers wishing to receive such a reprint may address their requests to Professor Ibrahim Abu-Lughod at the Department of Sociology, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts.

ISSN:0430-0696    

DOI:10.1093/sf/42.3.288

出版商:The University of North Carolina Press    

年代:1964

数据来源: OUP

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Using retrospective reporting as a source of “longitudinal” data, an analysis is presented of the varying degrees of homogamy between a homogeneous sample of engaged girls and three men with whom each had had a serious relationship. Evidence is presented which suggests that (a) there is a general tendency to become more homogamous through the mate selection period on some dimensions (e.g., education) but to become less so on other dimensions (e.g., urbanity); (b) some of the patterns more easily fit a theory based on variations in opportunities to meet different kinds of partners, others more easily fit a normative theory; (c) social changes during the selection period (geographical or social mobility) influence the level and pattern of homogamy.

ISSN:0430-0696    

DOI:10.1093/sf/42.3.289

出版商:The University of North Carolina Press    

年代:1964

数据来源: OUP

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This paper reports an attempt to test the common assumption that “romantic love is for the emotionally immature.” After a survey of the literature, 14 sub-scales of Emotional Maturity were constructed, dealing with Stress, Handling Anger, Reactions to Authority, Integration, Self-Control, Judgment, Man-Woman Relationships, Attitude toward Learning, Intellectual Maturity, Responsibility, Egocenteredness-Sociocenteredness, Communication, Security-Insecurity and Social Poise. None of the fourteen correlation coefficients between the Emotional Maturity sub-scales and a Romanticism scale varied significantly from zero.

ISSN:0430-0696    

DOI:10.1093/sf/42.3.298

出版商:The University of North Carolina Press    

年代:1964

数据来源: OUP

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This study of a group of husbands and wives in the middle years of marriage investigated the relationship between sexual enjoyment and marital satisfaction of those high on religiosity and those low on religiosity. The major finding was that religiosity reduced the impact of women's lack of sexual gratification on their general marital satisfaction. This did not occur with the men. These findings are consistent with those of a study of the early years of marriage.

ISSN:0430-0696    

DOI:10.1093/sf/42.3.303

出版商:The University of North Carolina Press    

年代:1964

数据来源: OUP

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This analysis is based upon data of family migration histories for a sample of junior and senior high school students in the Seattle metropolitan area. It is found that the amount of residential mobility differs widely for families living in three different metropolitan subareas—the central city, an industrial-type suburb, and a residential-type suburb. In-flow migration analysis for the families provides evidence on the sources of inmigration for each sub-area, and extended study of migration experience. In general, decentralization was not found to be the dominant pattern of movement into peripheral areas for mobile families. Also, the industrial suburb resembles the central city more closely than it does the residential suburb according to the various migration criteria; further lending support for the notion and need for suburban typologies.

ISSN:0430-0696    

DOI:10.1093/sf/42.3.310

出版商:The University of North Carolina Press    

年代:1964

数据来源: OUP

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The Black Muslim movement among Negro Americans is viewed as an in-process example of a revitalization movement—“a deliberate, organized, conscious effort by members of a society to construct a more satisfying culture.” Using this juxtapositional method, our knowledge about the movement is systematized, and the theory is clarified and further operationalized. Several directions for research are suggested, including (1) viewing the Muslims in Weberian terms as a twentieth-century case of this-worldly activism motivated by religiously sanctioned asceticism, and (2) proposal of a comparative study designed to show the Muslims emerging from the same kinds of acculturative pressures as the Peyote cult of American Indian tribes.

ISSN:0430-0696    

DOI:10.1093/sf/42.3.315

出版商:The University of North Carolina Press    

年代:1964

数据来源: OUP

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The hypothesis that cognitive simplicity is positively related to out-group stereotyping was tested with data on college students. Cognitive complexity-simplicity was estimated by the accuracy with which subjects perceived the attitudes of others and by the similarity of own attitudes to those attributed to others. Simple and refined measures of stereotyping were used. Significance of relationships was determined by the chi square and coefficient of contingency tests. Both estimates of cognitive simplicity were found to be directly related to the two measures of stereotyping. The association was weak, but statistically significant in three of the four tests.

ISSN:0430-0696    

DOI:10.1093/sf/42.3.324

出版商:The University of North Carolina Press    

年代:1964

数据来源: OUP

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This paper describes the experiences of a participant-observer who spent two weeks with several groups of middle class deviant youths in a suburb of Los Angeles. These observations are related to prevailing conceptions of delinquent gangs, in an attempt to identify parallel and divergent characteristics of the middle and lower class groups. As a result of these observations and comparisons, questions are raised concerning the prevalence of highly structured gangs, dimensions which differentiate delinquent groups, the extent to which adult recognition structures and legitimizes gangs, and the essential similarity between delinquent and non-delinquent groups.

ISSN:0430-0696    

DOI:10.1093/sf/42.3.328

出版商:The University of North Carolina Press    

年代:1964

数据来源: OUP

摘要:

This paper reports research in which it was found that lower class persons see fewer social classes than those in the middle or upper class. It would not appear that this finding can be attributed to the tendency of lower class individuals to use fewer categories or to general sociological concomitants of lower class life. It is suggested that this is instead due to an attempt at self-elevation: those near the top would enhance their social position by seeing many categories, while those near the bottom would enhance theirs by seeing few.

ISSN:0430-0696    

DOI:10.1093/sf/42.3.336

出版商:The University of North Carolina Press    

年代:1964

数据来源: OUP