J Mayone Stycos
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 124889 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J Mayone Stycos |
| NOMBRES | J Mayone |
| APELLIDO | Stycos |
| FIRMA | STYCOS J M |
| AFILIACIONES | Cornell University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 75 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 165 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1952 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Immigrant Environmental Behaviors in New York City
Objective. This article compares environmental behaviors of immigrants and the native‐born to answer questions about potential impacts of immigration on the U.S. environment. Methods. We consider immigrant/native‐born differences in the likelihood of engaging in environmentally friendly behavior. With data from a survey of New York City residents, we test two hypotheses regarding environmental behavior: (1) controlling for environmental orientati…
Does demographic knowledge matter? Results of a poll in the New York City Watershed
Population Knowledge and Attitudes of Latin American Adolescents
Several thousand students in each of three Latin American secondary schools completed questionnaires dealing with birth control and population. Sex, grade level, and country were among the more important characteristics affecting knowledge and attitude. However, desired family size was unaffected by years of schooling and is set at between two and three children by Grade 7. The impact of schooling was only partially accounted for by associated so…
Population and the environment
Teenage sexual attitudes in China
Not much is known about the sexual attitudes of Chinese teenagers. In this article we endeavor to address this void by examining the sexual attitudes of Chinese teenagers with survey data collected in Sichuan Province in 1988. Our analysis has two goals: first, to describe aggregate attitudes toward premarital sexual practices; and second, to identify the principal factors that influence these attitudes. To accomplish the second goal we estimate …
Parks, resettlement, and population
A survey of 139 men and 123 women in four communities bordering Los Haitises National Park in the Dominican Republic was undertaken in late 1992. The survey followed a presidential decree ordering the army to clear the forest of people and cattle, and to resettle a number of villages. Some of the findings were as follows. Use of the forest for firewood and cash crop cultivation was admitted by most of the population, but there was also an awarene…
Population, projections, and policy
The second great wall of China
Demography as an Interdiscipline
Community Development and Family Planning
This book presents the findings of a four-year evaluation of the community development and family planning education program carried out in Egyptian villages in the late 1970s. Interviewing thousands of male and female villagers researchers elicited data about knowledge of contraception attitudes toward family size and family planning family planning practices and actual fertility rates. Also included in the survey were the social and economic ch…
Demography As an Interdiscipline
Community Development and Family Planning
An evaluation of the population and development program in Egypt
Previous rural surveys analyzing the impact of the Egyptian Population and Development Program on KAP variables (knowledge, attitudes, and practices of contraception) have produced mixed results. In 1982 a survey specifically designed to measure program impact contained refinements in questionnaire measurement, sampling, and analysis. Each refinement intensified the apparent program impact. Fertility itself still appears unresponsive, and attitud…
The Timing of Spanish Marriages
A sample survey of 2,012 married and single women aged 18-59 in Madrid was in part focused on causes of late marriage, which has for a long time been characteristic of Spain. It was found that age at marriage was not related to a variety of socio-economic measures, to parental restrictions on courtship, nor to birth order or number of siblings. Direct economic motivations appear to have affected length of courtship but scarcely age at marriage. A…
Contraception and Community in Egypt
Egypt's Population and Development Program (PDP) is an effort to combine family planning and development approaches at the grass roots level. Introduced as a pilot project in the late 1970s, it is now active in nearly three quarters of Egypt's villages. A 1980 Contraceptive Prevalence Survey of over 5,000 rural women stratified 124 villages according to their exposure to the program (from zero to two or more years). Comparison of women living in …
The decline of fertility in Costa Rica
At mid-century when Costa Rica's birth rate was among the world's highest, marked fertility differences were recorded among the country's 68 cantons. Literacy levels and sex ratios largely account for the early differences, which were due to variations both in age at marriage and in marital fertility. Dramatic fertility declines were initiated in the 1960s in cantons in which literacy was higher and overall modernization more advanced. In a secon…
A Critique of Focus Group and Survey Research
Increasing recognition of the need for more qualitative methods in research on motivational aspects of fertility has rekindled interest in the focus group interview. Potential advantages and disadvantages of this approach are discussed especially in light of recognized limitations of KAP Studies. Results of a Mexico study that utilized both survey and focus group techniques are evaluated concentrating on the concept of machismo as related to fert…
El desarrollo y la población en América Latina
Patterns of Fertility Decline in Costa Rica
Recent trends in Latin American fertility
Clear and decisive declines in fertility in several Latin American and Caribbean countries may be signalling changes in long-standing fertility patterns in the region. The role of social and economic development in this decline is not clear and is further complicated by the emergence of organized family-planning programmes. Though in most of the countries in which falls began earliest (Barbados, Chile, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico and Trinidad) birth …
Psychological Perspectives on Population
Motivators versus Messengers
A total of 3578 women in Santo Domingo were contacted either by trained motivators or a messenger to urge them to attend a family planning clinic. 3% of the women contacted came to the clinic. There was no significant difference in the number of women who responded to the motivator versus the messenger . Thus the more expensive person-to-person home visit is no more effective in bringing in new birth control acceptors than printed material delive…
Some Dimensions of Population and Family Planning
Where population planning and family planning programs converge and diverge are discussed in terms of ultimate arid intermediate goals, and the means by which goals are achieved. Broad variations are found within the ranks of both groups of planning advocates. This variation is both cause and effect of differing levels of concern over the societal consequences of population growth and size and of family growth and size. When degree of concern ove…
Honduras
In 1968 a study was conducted in 4 barrios of Honduras to obtain information on an urban low-income population with regard to health and family planning and to assess the effects of an educational mass media campaign on the demand for family planning services. Before the 5 week campaign only 6% of those interviewed mentioned family planning as a service of the health center while afterwards 29% mentioned it. The percent seeking family planning or…
Public and Private Opinion on Population and Family Planning
The success of efforts to deal with the problem of world population growth will depend heavily on the extent to which national populations and their leaders are convinced of the seriousness of the problem. The concept of on any public issue may conveniently be classified as public or opinion and again according to whether it refers to the opinion of elites or of the general population. Characteristics sources of data for the resulting four types …
Female working roles and fertility
Using survey data gathered in Turkey in 1963, the relationship between female employment status and fertility is examined. Controlling for urban-rural residence, education, and exposure to conception within marriage, no differences in fertility by labor force status appear. Although there is a slightly greater tendency for employed than for non-employed women to hold attitudes more favorable to small families and family size limitation, the obser…
A Critique of Focus Group and Survey Research
Increasing recognition of the need for more qualitative methods in research on motivational aspects of fertility has rekindled interest in the focus group interview. Potential advantages and disadvantages of this approach are discussed especially in light of recognized limitations of KAP Studies. Results of a Mexico study that utilized both survey and focus group techniques are evaluated concentrating on the concept of machismo as related to fert…
Immigrant Environmental Behaviors in New York City
Objective. This article compares environmental behaviors of immigrants and the native‐born to answer questions about potential impacts of immigration on the U.S. environment. Methods. We consider immigrant/native‐born differences in the likelihood of engaging in environmentally friendly behavior. With data from a survey of New York City residents, we test two hypotheses regarding environmental behavior: (1) controlling for environmental orientati…
The Family and Population Control
Family and Fertility in Puerto Rico
The Control of Human Fertility in Jamaica
Social Class and Preferred Family Size in Peru
Data from a survey of currently mated women in Lima, Peru, and a highland Peruvian town indicate a positive relation between social class and number of children desired but a negative relation between class and previous thought or discussions of family size. Lower-class preferences for small families may fail to be activated because of various misperceptions of fertility and mortality. In particular, the lower classes tend to overestimate average…
Haitian Attitudes Toward Family Size
Over the past decade a number of studies of attitudes toward family size have been conducted in underdeveloped countries. The results of such investigations have been surprisingly similar. When lower income, poorly educated women in Lebanon, Peru, or India are asked for their ideal family size or the number of children they desire, the responses cluster around three or four children. Such findings have surprised intellectuals in countries concern…
Problems of Communication Between Husband and Wife on Matters Relating to Family Limitation
Culture and differential fertility in Peru
Analysis of the 1940 Census of Peru discloses marked fertility differentials between urban and rural areas which are accounted for in terms of a lower incidence of motherhood in urban areas. Further analysis by department shows that social and economic characteristics are often related in one way to the Incidence of motherhood and in the opposite way to the fertility of mothers. Thus, Indian-speaking areas tend to have a high incidence of mothers…
The Family and Population Control. A Puerto Rican Experiment in Social Change
888 families participated in a survey on the family and population control. As of 1953 the population size of Puerto Rico was 2267000 with a crude birth rate of 37.5 infant mortality rate of 65.7 and an average completed family size of 7 among rural and 1.7 among urban women. For the project described the following steps were taken: 1) transposition of the problem of the islands population increase into family terms 2) selecting a conceptual fram…
Some Dimensions of Population and Family Planning
Where population planning and family planning programs converge and diverge are discussed in terms of ultimate arid intermediate goals, and the means by which goals are achieved. Broad variations are found within the ranks of both groups of planning advocates. This variation is both cause and effect of differing levels of concern over the societal consequences of population growth and size and of family growth and size. When degree of concern ove…
The Potential Role of Turkish Village Opinion Leaders in a Program of Family Planning
Journal Article THE POTENTIAL ROLE OF TURKISH VILLAGE OPINION LEADERS IN A PROGRAM OF FAMILY PLANNING Get access J. MAYONE STYCOS J. MAYONE STYCOS J. Mayone Stycos is Professor of Sociology and Director of the International Population Program at Cornell University. This is a revision of a paper read at the 1964 meetings of the Population Association of America Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion…
Patterns of Communication in a Rural Greek Village
To what extent does the category of information controllers who, hypothesis fit the communications behavior of because of their ownership of radios, are in a a relatively undeveloped area? In this study position to control the flow of news. of a rural Greek village, the author finds that The author, now Assistant Director of a in an area having low literacy and meager research project being sponsored by the Puerto access to the mass media, the im…
Fertility Differences in a Modernizing Country
Family Structure and Fertility in Puerto Rico
Family Structure and Fertility in Puerto Rico Get access Reuben Hill, Reuben Hill Institute For Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina and Social Science Research Center, University of Puerto Rico Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Kurt W. Back, Kurt W. Back Institute For Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina and Social Science Research Center, University of Puerto …
Population and the environment
The decline of fertility in Costa Rica
At mid-century when Costa Rica's birth rate was among the world's highest, marked fertility differences were recorded among the country's 68 cantons. Literacy levels and sex ratios largely account for the early differences, which were due to variations both in age at marriage and in marital fertility. Dramatic fertility declines were initiated in the 1960s in cantons in which literacy was higher and overall modernization more advanced. In a secon…
Opposition to family planning in Latin America
While opposition to family planning in Latin America stems primarily from the Church Marxists and Nationalists this paper focuses on the published views of 3 outspoken Nationalists. Felix Cruzat Alegre a Lima lawyer states that Latin American poverty is caused by archaic socioeconomic structures rather than a lack of natural resources or land. The North Americans in his view wish to keep the underdeveloped nations weak and underdeveloped via lagg…
Survey Research and Population Control in Latin America
Journal Article SAMPLE SURVEYS AND POPULATION CONTROL: SURVEY RESEARCH AND POPULATION CONTROL IN LATIN AMERICA Get access J. MAYONE STYCOS J. MAYONE STYCOS *J. Mayone Stycos is Professor of Sociology and Director of the International Population Program at Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 28, Issue 3, FALL 1964, Pages 367–372, https://doi.org/10.1086/267258…
And the Poor Get Children
The Prospects of Birth Control in Puerto Rico
Does demographic knowledge matter? Results of a poll in the New York City Watershed
Parks, resettlement, and population
A survey of 139 men and 123 women in four communities bordering Los Haitises National Park in the Dominican Republic was undertaken in late 1992. The survey followed a presidential decree ordering the army to clear the forest of people and cattle, and to resettle a number of villages. Some of the findings were as follows. Use of the forest for firewood and cash crop cultivation was admitted by most of the population, but there was also an awarene…
An evaluation of the population and development program in Egypt
Previous rural surveys analyzing the impact of the Egyptian Population and Development Program on KAP variables (knowledge, attitudes, and practices of contraception) have produced mixed results. In 1982 a survey specifically designed to measure program impact contained refinements in questionnaire measurement, sampling, and analysis. Each refinement intensified the apparent program impact. Fertility itself still appears unresponsive, and attitud…
Interviewer Training in Another Culture
Journal Article Interviewer Training in Another Culture Get access J. MAYONE STYCOS J. MAYONE STYCOS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 16, Issue 2, SUMMER 1952, Pages 236–246, https://doi.org/10.1086/266385 Published: 01 January 1952
Patterns of Communication in a Rural Greek Village
To what extent does the category of information controllers who, hypothesis fit the communications behavior of because of their ownership of radios, are in a a relatively undeveloped area? In this study position to control the flow of news. of a rural Greek village, the author finds that The author, now Assistant Director of a in an area having low literacy and meager research project being sponsored by the Puerto access to the mass media, the im…
Family and Fertility in Puerto Rico
The Prospects of Birth Control in Puerto Rico
La Dinámica del Control de la Natalidad en la Clase Baja de Puerto Rico
Este artigo examina a dinâmica do controle de natalidade entre a classe baixa de Porto Rico em 1953. Os autores, J. Mayone Stycos e Angela Müller Montiel, investigam as atitudes e práticas relacionadas à fertilidade, explorando os fatores socioeconômicos, culturais e religiosos que influenciam as decisões reprodutivas. O estudo destaca a complexa interação entre pobreza, normas sociais e acesso a métodos contraceptivos, revelando as barreiras e d…
Unusual Applications of Research
A few years ago I described the problems involved in an opinion survey of Arab Nomads. I feel that this study reached the limits of the unusual, and that anything I say now will be somewhat anti-climactic. With this limitation in mind I think it can be said that the research under consideration in this article is unusual both in terms of its content and in terms of the population under study. (1) The content of the studies is delicate, concerning…
Further Observations on the Recruitment and Training of Interviewers in Other Cultures
In the summer of 1952 the Quarterly carried this author's article on “Interviewer Training in Another Culture.” Since that time Dr. Stycos has trained interviewers for surveys on the factors affecting human fertility in Puerto Rico and Jamaica. In this article, he describes some of the techniques used and evaluates the effectiveness of these devices. J. M. Stycos is now with the Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North …
Interviewer Effect on Scale Reproducibility
IN administering Guttman scales it is assumed that acceptable scales measure unidimensional traits and that deviations from perfect reproducibility are caused by some peculiarity of the situation. If the scale is self-administered, the disturbance can be charged almost wholly to the respondent. But if the scale is administered in the course of an interview, then the deviation from perfect reproducibility may be due also to the interviewer. We exp…
Family Structure and Fertility in Puerto Rico
Family Structure and Fertility in Puerto Rico Get access Reuben Hill, Reuben Hill Institute For Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina and Social Science Research Center, University of Puerto Rico Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Kurt W. Back, Kurt W. Back Institute For Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina and Social Science Research Center, University of Puerto …
Family and Fertility in Puerto Rico
The Dynamics of Family Planning
Problems of Communication Between Husband and Wife on Matters Relating to Family Limitation
Family and Fertility in Puerto Rico
Manner of Original Presentation and Subsequent Communication
The Puerto Rican Field Experiment in Population Control
Must Men Starve? The Malthusian Controversy
The Population of Jamaïca. An Analysis of Its Structure and Growth
Studying Attitudes Relating to Sex
Journal Article STUDYING ATTITUDES RELATING TO SEX Get access Kurt W. Back, Kurt W. Back University of North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jean Owen, Jean Owen Elmo Roper & Associates Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Florence A. Ruderman, Florence A. Ruderman Bureau of Applied Social Research Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
The Fertility of American Women
The Family and Population Control
A New Look in Latin American Relations
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation J. Stycos; A New Look in Latin American Relations: A Report on the Denver UNESCO Conference. Human Organization 1 December 1959; 18 (4): 149–151. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.18.4.f3274650t3762323 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero…
Modern Science and the Human Fertility Problems. Richard L. Meier
The Family and Population Control
Thirty Years of Research in Human Fertility
The Family and Population Control
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