James A Sweet
Biographic Data
| ID | 114322 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James A Sweet |
| GIVEN NAMES | James A |
| FAMILY NAME | Sweet |
| SIGNATURE | SWEET J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 889 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Research Note: New Perspectives on Kongo in Revolutionary Haiti
On February 26, 1794, Louis Narcisse Baudry des Lozières arrived at the port of Norfolk, Virginia, from Le Havre on the coast of France. His journey had not been an easy one. Shortly after leaving France, the ship carrying Baudry, his wife, their 13-year-old daughter, and a Norman servant girl was caught in a terrible storm. The family endured a harrowing four-month Atlantic crossing, but they had experienced far worse. Just two years earlier, Ba…
Introduction: Brazilian Candomblé: Scholarship at the Crossroads of Africa and New World
The following pages present an important scholarly exchange on a central sociocultural issue in Latin American history. First, we present J. Lorand Matory's review of Luis Nicolau Parés's 2013 book The Formation of Candomblé: Vodun History and Ritual in Brazil . Second, we present Parés's response to the review
Closing Thoughts
As someone who assigns both Matory and Parés in my graduate courses, I find myself asking what is at stake in this debate. If we take Matory at face value, Parés is an unreformed “Herskovitsian” who searches for linear connections between vodun religion in West Africa and the Jeje Candomblé in Bahia. According to Matory, Parés's emphasis on primordial Africa is based on a quest “to avenge the honor of the Jeje nation.” But avenge it from what? Ag…
The Changing Character of Stepfamilies: Implications of Cohabitation and Nonmarital Childbearing
Divorce, nonmarital childbearing, and cohabitation are reshaping family experience in the United States. Because of these changes, our traditional definitions of families decreasingly capture the social units of interest. We have noted how a significant proportion of officially defined single-parent families actually are two-parent unmarried families. The present paper expands on this perspective with respect to stepfamilies. We must broaden our …
The Role of Cohabitation in Declining Rates of Marriage
This analysis examines trends in young adults in union formation comparing trends in marriage to trends when cohabitation is included as well as marriage. It then documents the characteristics of cohabiting couples in terms of the duration of the union presence of children perceived stability marriage plans and opinions about cohabitation. Finally it analyzes several marriage-related attitude items among all unmarried persons under age 35. The US…
The Impact of Family Background and Early Marital Factors on Marital Disruption
A high level of marital disruption remains a major factor of American family experience. This analysis takes advantage of the broad coverage of family-related issues by the National Survey of Families and Households (1987-1988) to explore both methodological and substantive issues concerning marital dissolution in the United States. The analysis finds that marital disruptions are seriously underreported by males, making the analysis of male marit…
Changing Patterns of Remarriage
After briefly reviewing recent trends in US remarriage rates this paper focuses on the variation in these rates as measured in the 1980 and 1985 June Current Population Surveys. For data quality reasons it focuses on rates observed in the 5 years before each of the surveys. It begins by discussing the demographic composition of separation cohorts as a factor affecting remarriage rates and ultimately the structure of remarriages. It next examines …
American Families and Households
Whither the Family
National Estimates of Cohabitation
Data from the 1987–1988 National Survey of Families and Households are used to provide national estimates of cohabitation trends and levels. The rapid increase since around 1970 is documented over both birth cohorts and marriage cohorts. Almost half of the persons in their early 30s and half of the recently married have cohabited. Changes in the proportion ever married are compared with changes in the proportion who have either married or cohabit…
National Survey of Families and Households: (386712004-001)
This collection provides data on the family experience in the United States. At a time when the range of family structures is becoming more and more diverse, this study permits a close examination of the resulting family compositions and household operations. One adult, the primary respondent, was chosen from each of 13,017 households in the study. In addition to the main interview conducted with the primary respondent, a shorter, self-administer…
Components of change in the number of households: 1970–1980
There was an increase from 62.8 to 79.1 million households in the United States during the 1970s. The number of households increased much more rapidly than the population. This paper decomposes this growth in the number of households into components associated with changing age and marital status composition and changing age by marital status-specific propensities to form households. About one-third of the increase in the number of households was…
Those ubiquitous fertility trends: United States, 1945-1979
The analyses shown here indicate that the pervasiveness of fertility trends found earlier for the 1950's and 1960's has continued for the 1970's. The national period fertility trends have occurred within every racial, social, and economic subgroup examined. As before, there is no evidence of a narrowing of fertility differentials within successive cross‐sections. Variables, such as race or education, continue to exert effects on cross‐sectional f…
Birth and Fortune: The Impact of Numbers on Personal Welfare
Social Demography
Social Demography
Postwar Fertility Trends and Differentials in the United States
Social Demography
Postwar Fertility Trends and Differentials in the United States
Postwar Fertility Trends and Differentials in the United States
The Fertility of Working Women: A Synthesis of International Research
Postwar Fertility Trends and Differentials in the United States
Postwar Fertility Trends and Differentials in the United States
Demography and the Family
Women & Work: An International Comparison
The Role of Cohabitation in Declining Rates of Marriage
This analysis examines trends in young adults in union formation comparing trends in marriage to trends when cohabitation is included as well as marriage. It then documents the characteristics of cohabiting couples in terms of the duration of the union presence of children perceived stability marriage plans and opinions about cohabitation. Finally it analyzes several marriage-related attitude items among all unmarried persons under age 35. The US…
National Estimates of Cohabitation
Data from the 1987–1988 National Survey of Families and Households are used to provide national estimates of cohabitation trends and levels. The rapid increase since around 1970 is documented over both birth cohorts and marriage cohorts. Almost half of the persons in their early 30s and half of the recently married have cohabited. Changes in the proportion ever married are compared with changes in the proportion who have either married or cohabit…
Differentials in Marital Instability: 1970
Using national data on white ever-married women under forty-five, differentials in marital instability are examined for several of the wife's characteristics at first marriage and for the couple's combined age, education and religion. Dummy variable multiple regression is used to adjust for the effects of differing durations since first marriage and to obtain effects for each variable net of other variables. With other variables controlled, an in…
The Impact of Family Background and Early Marital Factors on Marital Disruption
A high level of marital disruption remains a major factor of American family experience. This analysis takes advantage of the broad coverage of family-related issues by the National Survey of Families and Households (1987-1988) to explore both methodological and substantive issues concerning marital dissolution in the United States. The analysis finds that marital disruptions are seriously underreported by males, making the analysis of male marit…
The Changing Character of Stepfamilies: Implications of Cohabitation and Nonmarital Childbearing
Divorce, nonmarital childbearing, and cohabitation are reshaping family experience in the United States. Because of these changes, our traditional definitions of families decreasingly capture the social units of interest. We have noted how a significant proportion of officially defined single-parent families actually are two-parent unmarried families. The present paper expands on this perspective with respect to stepfamilies. We must broaden our …
Changing Patterns of Remarriage
After briefly reviewing recent trends in US remarriage rates this paper focuses on the variation in these rates as measured in the 1980 and 1985 June Current Population Surveys. For data quality reasons it focuses on rates observed in the 5 years before each of the surveys. It begins by discussing the demographic composition of separation cohorts as a factor affecting remarriage rates and ultimately the structure of remarriages. It next examines …
The Impact of Marital Disruption and Remarriage on Fertility
Using data from the 1965 National Fertility Study we examine the differential in fertility by whether a woman's first marriage was terminated by divorce or death of spouse, or whether it was still intact at the time of interview. For women 25 to 54 in 1965 we find: (1) controlling for age and race differentials women whose first marriage was terminated by divorce have .14 children fewer than those who remain in intact first marriages; (2) this is…
Demography and the Family
Components of change in the number of households: 1970–1980
There was an increase from 62.8 to 79.1 million households in the United States during the 1970s. The number of households increased much more rapidly than the population. This paper decomposes this growth in the number of households into components associated with changing age and marital status composition and changing age by marital status-specific propensities to form households. About one-third of the increase in the number of households was…
The living arrangements of separated, widowed, and divorced mothers
When her marriage is disrupted a woman must make some decision about where to live. A basic component of residential choice is the decision whether to live alone as the head of a household, to move in with other relatives, or to share a household with nonrelatives. Such a choice is constrained by the availability of relatives, and by whether or not the woman can afford to live alone. The question of living arrangements is one important component …
Research Note: New Perspectives on Kongo in Revolutionary Haiti
On February 26, 1794, Louis Narcisse Baudry des Lozières arrived at the port of Norfolk, Virginia, from Le Havre on the coast of France. His journey had not been an easy one. Shortly after leaving France, the ship carrying Baudry, his wife, their 13-year-old daughter, and a Norman servant girl was caught in a terrible storm. The family endured a harrowing four-month Atlantic crossing, but they had experienced far worse. Just two years earlier, Ba…
Social background and breastfeeding among American mothers
Using 1965 National Fertility Survey data, the national trends and patterns of breastfeeding among American mothers are examined. A review of the literature finds most results of studies to be inconsistent. In this study the total sample was 4918 mothers with first births. The general conclusion is that breastfeeding has been declining since the turn of the century. 50% breastfed their first child. Black and Latin American mothers are about 7 poi…
Labor force reentry by mothers of young children
Family composition and the labor force activity of American wives
This is a study of the employment patterns of American wives in relation to the composition of their families. The data are taken from the 1960 United States Census, both from published tabulations and the 1/1000 sample. The population studied is non-Negro, non-farm, married, husband present women who are under the age of sixty. The methods of analysis used include the comparison of employment rates among subpopulations and a dummy variable regre…
Postwar Fertility Trends and Differentials in the United States
Whither the Family
Those ubiquitous fertility trends: United States, 1945-1979
The analyses shown here indicate that the pervasiveness of fertility trends found earlier for the 1950's and 1960's has continued for the 1970's. The national period fertility trends have occurred within every racial, social, and economic subgroup examined. As before, there is no evidence of a narrowing of fertility differentials within successive cross‐sections. Variables, such as race or education, continue to exert effects on cross‐sectional f…
Family composition and the labor force activity of American wives
This is a study of the employment patterns of American wives in relation to the composition of their families. The data are taken from the 1960 United States Census, both from published tabulations and the 1/1000 sample. The population studied is non-Negro, non-farm, married, husband present women who are under the age of sixty. The methods of analysis used include the comparison of employment rates among subpopulations and a dummy variable regre…
The living arrangements of separated, widowed, and divorced mothers
When her marriage is disrupted a woman must make some decision about where to live. A basic component of residential choice is the decision whether to live alone as the head of a household, to move in with other relatives, or to share a household with nonrelatives. Such a choice is constrained by the availability of relatives, and by whether or not the woman can afford to live alone. The question of living arrangements is one important component …
Differentials in Marital Instability: 1970
Using national data on white ever-married women under forty-five, differentials in marital instability are examined for several of the wife's characteristics at first marriage and for the couple's combined age, education and religion. Dummy variable multiple regression is used to adjust for the effects of differing durations since first marriage and to obtain effects for each variable net of other variables. With other variables controlled, an in…
Labor force reentry by mothers of young children
Differentials in Marital Instability of the Black Population: 1970
TN A RECENT ARTICLE the authors of this paper have documented differential marital stability among whites on the basis of data uniquely appropriate for the study of marital disruption.' In the present paper, that analysis is extended to the black population. We first examine differentials in separation and divorce among blacks, comparing these differentials to those among whites (sociological discussion of the independent variables developed in t…
Social background and breastfeeding among American mothers
Using 1965 National Fertility Survey data, the national trends and patterns of breastfeeding among American mothers are examined. A review of the literature finds most results of studies to be inconsistent. In this study the total sample was 4918 mothers with first births. The general conclusion is that breastfeeding has been declining since the turn of the century. 50% breastfed their first child. Black and Latin American mothers are about 7 poi…
Periodical abstracts
The Impact of Marital Disruption and Remarriage on Fertility
Using data from the 1965 National Fertility Study we examine the differential in fertility by whether a woman's first marriage was terminated by divorce or death of spouse, or whether it was still intact at the time of interview. For women 25 to 54 in 1965 we find: (1) controlling for age and race differentials women whose first marriage was terminated by divorce have .14 children fewer than those who remain in intact first marriages; (2) this is…
Women & Work: An International Comparison
Women in the Labor Force
Postwar Fertility Trends and Differentials in the United States
Demography and the Family
Social Demography
Postwar Fertility Trends and Differentials in the United States
Postwar Fertility Trends and Differentials in the United States
The Fertility of Working Women: A Synthesis of International Research
Postwar Fertility Trends and Differentials in the United States
Postwar Fertility Trends and Differentials in the United States
Social Demography
Social Demography
Birth and Fortune: The Impact of Numbers on Personal Welfare
Those ubiquitous fertility trends: United States, 1945-1979
The analyses shown here indicate that the pervasiveness of fertility trends found earlier for the 1950's and 1960's has continued for the 1970's. The national period fertility trends have occurred within every racial, social, and economic subgroup examined. As before, there is no evidence of a narrowing of fertility differentials within successive cross‐sections. Variables, such as race or education, continue to exert effects on cross‐sectional f…
Components of change in the number of households: 1970–1980
There was an increase from 62.8 to 79.1 million households in the United States during the 1970s. The number of households increased much more rapidly than the population. This paper decomposes this growth in the number of households into components associated with changing age and marital status composition and changing age by marital status-specific propensities to form households. About one-third of the increase in the number of households was…
National Survey of Families and Households: (386712004-001)
This collection provides data on the family experience in the United States. At a time when the range of family structures is becoming more and more diverse, this study permits a close examination of the resulting family compositions and household operations. One adult, the primary respondent, was chosen from each of 13,017 households in the study. In addition to the main interview conducted with the primary respondent, a shorter, self-administer…
Whither the Family
Sociology (29 works) · Demography (23 works) · Population (18 works) · Demographic economics (17 works) · Demography (17 works) · Economics (17 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (16 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (16 works) · Geography (16 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (13 works)