Jean E Veevers
Biographic Data
| ID | 148327 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean E Veevers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean E |
| FAMILY NAME | Veevers |
| SIGNATURE | VEEVERS J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 147 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Age-Heterogamy and Canadian Unions
This study provides a much-needed exploration of the determinants of age-discrepant unions in Canada. What little research has been conducted in this area of sociology of the family is now outdated. Further, the growing number of Canadians living in nonmarital cohabitation warrants their inclusion in any consideration of contemporary, heterosexual unions, and we have done so here. Utilizing multinomial logit modeling techniques, we analyze data d…
Traumas versus Strens: A Paradigm of Positive versus Negative Divorce Outcomes
The ubiquity of the definition of divorce as a traumatic crisis has tended to focus research on its deleterious effects, especially on the pathogenic consequences which may accrue to children. Antithetical to this model is the contention that divorce per se need not always be a trauma, but may also be a stren, a strengthening experience. Available research literature on the responses of married persons to divorce is reexamined in terms of an alte…
Religious Involvement and Life Satisfaction in Canada
This paper examines the relationship between religious involvement and self-reported satisfaction with life in general, and with six specific domains of life. The sample consists of persons aged 25–59 (N = 6,621) surveyed in 1985 in the first Canadian General Social Survey. Overall, there appears to be a positive association between religious involvement and satisfaction for both men and women. However, in British Columbia, where levels of religi…
Canadian Regional Differences in Religious Unaffiliation: The Catholic-Protestant Factor
Jean E. Veevers, Canadian Regional Differences in Religious Unaffiliation: The Catholic-Protestant Factor, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Winter, 1990), pp. 77-83
Religiously unaffiliated Canadians: Sex, age, and regional variations
The 'Real' Marriage Squeeze: Mate Selection, Mortality, and the Mating Gradient
Among persons in midlife, about one in five is unmarried. The sex ratio in this group is about 80, which is markedly unbalanced. Although changes in fertility and in mortality are contributing factors, the 'real' squeeze is due largely to the ubiquitous norm that husbands should be older than their wives. This mating gradient is the most significant determinant of the competition for mates as it is experienced by older unmarried women compared wi…
Increasing Sex Mortality Differentials among Black Americans, 1950-1978
At the turn of the century the sex mortality ratio (SMR) for US blacks was 1.06; by 1950 the ratio had increased to 1.24 and in 1978 it was up to 1.76. While both whites and blacks exhibit a trend of increase in the SMR the pattern of the increase differs. Although blacks have experienced greater gains in mortality reduction than whites in this century the current racial difference in mortality is such that the life expectancy at birth of blacks …
The Social Meaning of Pets: Alternative Roles for Companion Animals
When companion animal interact closely with people, the roles they play may be categorized in terms of three major functions. The projective function involves the extent to which pets may serve as a symbolic extension of the self. The sociability function involves the role of pets in facilitating human-to-human interaction. The surrogate function involves the extent to which interaction with pets may supplement human-to-human interaction, or serv…
Age-discrepant marriages: Cross-national comparisons of Canadian-American trends
Comparisons of age‐discrepant marriages ideally involve data which are collected at the time of marriage and which are available by single years of age for the same population over time. Although such data are not available for Canadian‐American comparisons, approximations of them are derived from the United States census, from marriage statistics (including statistics for California and for British Columbia), and from selected fortuitous studies…
The Childbearing Decision
Accelerating sex differentials in mortality: An analysis of contributing factors
An analysis of mortality rates documents that the well‐established female advantage in mortality continues to increase. Data from the U.S. census show that the sex differential in mortality has increased from 1.69 in 1963 to 1.82 in 1976. The age groups which show the most pronounced changes are youth (15–24), young adults (25–34), and old persons (75–84). Following Enterline (1961), we assess the major causes of death within each of these age gr…
Women in the driver's seat: Trends in sex differences in driving and death
Fertility and population regulation: Differential childlessness by color: A further examination
In the past, childlessness has been more common among nonwhites than among whites. Since the 1940's, the incidence of all kinds of childlessness has declined sharply. However, the decline in childlessness has been much more rapid among nonwhite couples, until, for younger cohorts, childlessness is more common among whites than nonwhites
Childless by Choice
Childless by Choice
Having Children: Philosophical and Legal Reflections on Parenthood
The Heathen Canadians: Demographic Correlates of Nonbelief
The sociology of religion has tended to ignore the phenomenon of nonreligious persons. The Canadian census has always collected data on religious identity, but it was not until 1971 that a separate response category of “no religion” was provided. At that time, of all Canadians over the age of 15, 4.44% reported they had “no religion.” The distribution of persons with “no religion” suggests it is negatively correlated with age, it is more common a…
Voluntary Childlessness: A Review of Issues and Evidence
No abstract available for this article
Body Politics: Power, Sex, and Nonverbal Communication
Single Blessedness: Observations on the Single Status in Married Society
The Moral Careers of Voluntarily Childless Wives: Notes on the Defense of a Variant World View
Population: Quantity Versus Quality
Voluntary Childlessness and Social Policy: An Alternative View
Research on voluntary childlessness has implications for at least three kinds of situations wherein social policies arefiormulated and enacted: first, the relationship between citizens and politicians in which pronatalist policies are expounded; second, the relationship between clients and professional counselors in which parenthood is advocated; and third, the relationship between patients and physicians in which access to fertility control is r…
Estimating the incidence and prevalence of birth orders: A technique using census data
Although birth order is recognized as an important social variable, the incidence of various birth orders is often difficult to assess using vital statistics. A technique is described whereby the incidence of birth orders in a population may be estimated directly from census data on the number of children ever born to post-menopausal women. The technique has the advantages of allowing ready utilization of existing and widely available data, based…
Parenthood and suicide: An examination of a neglected variable
The Social Meaning of Pets: Alternative Roles for Companion Animals
When companion animal interact closely with people, the roles they play may be categorized in terms of three major functions. The projective function involves the extent to which pets may serve as a symbolic extension of the self. The sociability function involves the role of pets in facilitating human-to-human interaction. The surrogate function involves the extent to which interaction with pets may supplement human-to-human interaction, or serv…
Voluntary Childlessness: A Review of Issues and Evidence
No abstract available for this article
Differential childlessness by color: A further examination
In recent article Kunz and Brinkerhoff (1969) postulate that there exists general belief that the rate of childlessness is higher among white than among nonwhite couples. They argue that in fact childlessness is considerably higher among nonwhite populations. In support of their argument Kunz and Brinkerhoff ignore previous research in this area (Grabill and Glick 1959) and refer to 1960 American census data concerning white and nonwhite wives ma…
Childlessness and age at first marriage
The 'Real' Marriage Squeeze: Mate Selection, Mortality, and the Mating Gradient
Among persons in midlife, about one in five is unmarried. The sex ratio in this group is about 80, which is markedly unbalanced. Although changes in fertility and in mortality are contributing factors, the 'real' squeeze is due largely to the ubiquitous norm that husbands should be older than their wives. This mating gradient is the most significant determinant of the competition for mates as it is experienced by older unmarried women compared wi…
Parenthood and suicide: An examination of a neglected variable
Voluntary Childlessness: A Neglected Area of Family Study
It is noted that voluntary childlessness has been a neglected area of study of family life. It is suggested that through the study of voluntarily childless couples information would be gained concerning the reasons that people become parents and the effects that parental roles have on peoples life adjustments. Little is known about the motivation for parenthood. Questions remain to be answered such as: 1) What kinds of instinct or socialization l…
Factors in the incidence of childlessness in Canada: An analysis of census data
Due to the difficulties involved in attempting to determine the relative proportion of involuntary childlessness and of voluntary childlessness in a given population, many investigators insist that the problem can only be examined in small-scale studies using intensive psychological interviewing techniques. A method for assessing the causes of childlessness in a population using census materials is described. If a distinction is made between psyc…
Religiously unaffiliated Canadians: Sex, age, and regional variations
The Moral Careers of Voluntarily Childless Wives: Notes on the Defense of a Variant World View
Canadian Regional Differences in Religious Unaffiliation: The Catholic-Protestant Factor
Jean E. Veevers, Canadian Regional Differences in Religious Unaffiliation: The Catholic-Protestant Factor, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Winter, 1990), pp. 77-83
Voluntary Childlessness and Social Policy: An Alternative View
Research on voluntary childlessness has implications for at least three kinds of situations wherein social policies arefiormulated and enacted: first, the relationship between citizens and politicians in which pronatalist policies are expounded; second, the relationship between clients and professional counselors in which parenthood is advocated; and third, the relationship between patients and physicians in which access to fertility control is r…
Age-Heterogamy and Canadian Unions
This study provides a much-needed exploration of the determinants of age-discrepant unions in Canada. What little research has been conducted in this area of sociology of the family is now outdated. Further, the growing number of Canadians living in nonmarital cohabitation warrants their inclusion in any consideration of contemporary, heterosexual unions, and we have done so here. Utilizing multinomial logit modeling techniques, we analyze data d…
Religious Involvement and Life Satisfaction in Canada
This paper examines the relationship between religious involvement and self-reported satisfaction with life in general, and with six specific domains of life. The sample consists of persons aged 25–59 (N = 6,621) surveyed in 1985 in the first Canadian General Social Survey. Overall, there appears to be a positive association between religious involvement and satisfaction for both men and women. However, in British Columbia, where levels of religi…
Women in the driver's seat: Trends in sex differences in driving and death
The Heathen Canadians: Demographic Correlates of Nonbelief
The sociology of religion has tended to ignore the phenomenon of nonreligious persons. The Canadian census has always collected data on religious identity, but it was not until 1971 that a separate response category of “no religion” was provided. At that time, of all Canadians over the age of 15, 4.44% reported they had “no religion.” The distribution of persons with “no religion” suggests it is negatively correlated with age, it is more common a…
Estimating the incidence and prevalence of birth orders: A technique using census data
Although birth order is recognized as an important social variable, the incidence of various birth orders is often difficult to assess using vital statistics. A technique is described whereby the incidence of birth orders in a population may be estimated directly from census data on the number of children ever born to post-menopausal women. The technique has the advantages of allowing ready utilization of existing and widely available data, based…
Declining childlessness and age at marriage: A test of a hypothesis
Using U.S. census data, 2 researchers in 1965 offered the following 3 conclusions regarding childlessness: 1) there are substantial differences in childlessness between urban and rural married women; 2) the proportion of childless women among postmenopausal women increased until about 1950; and 3) childlessness is presently declining. Investigators using 1961 Canadian census materials found the 3 conclusions to be true for Canada, as well. The in…
Childless by Choice
Body Politics: Power, Sex, and Nonverbal Communication
Childlessness and age at first marriage
Sample size and the interpretation of census data
This article is directed toward the validity of sampling techniques. The adequacy of a 1/1000 sample is tested by comparing data based on it with similar data based on a proportionately larger sample. Mitra's 1966 data on the prevalence of childlessness among American women, based on a 1/1000 sampling of the 1960 U.S. census, was reformulated based on a sample 50 times larger. The reformulation is tabulated according to race and age of the women.…
Differential childlessness by color: A further examination
In recent article Kunz and Brinkerhoff (1969) postulate that there exists general belief that the rate of childlessness is higher among white than among nonwhite couples. They argue that in fact childlessness is considerably higher among nonwhite populations. In support of their argument Kunz and Brinkerhoff ignore previous research in this area (Grabill and Glick 1959) and refer to 1960 American census data concerning white and nonwhite wives ma…
Factors in the incidence of childlessness in Canada: An analysis of census data
Due to the difficulties involved in attempting to determine the relative proportion of involuntary childlessness and of voluntary childlessness in a given population, many investigators insist that the problem can only be examined in small-scale studies using intensive psychological interviewing techniques. A method for assessing the causes of childlessness in a population using census materials is described. If a distinction is made between psyc…
Declining childlessness and age at marriage: A test of a hypothesis
Using U.S. census data, 2 researchers in 1965 offered the following 3 conclusions regarding childlessness: 1) there are substantial differences in childlessness between urban and rural married women; 2) the proportion of childless women among postmenopausal women increased until about 1950; and 3) childlessness is presently declining. Investigators using 1961 Canadian census materials found the 3 conclusions to be true for Canada, as well. The in…
Estimating the incidence and prevalence of birth orders: A technique using census data
Although birth order is recognized as an important social variable, the incidence of various birth orders is often difficult to assess using vital statistics. A technique is described whereby the incidence of birth orders in a population may be estimated directly from census data on the number of children ever born to post-menopausal women. The technique has the advantages of allowing ready utilization of existing and widely available data, based…
Parenthood and suicide: An examination of a neglected variable
Voluntary Childlessness: A Neglected Area of Family Study
It is noted that voluntary childlessness has been a neglected area of study of family life. It is suggested that through the study of voluntarily childless couples information would be gained concerning the reasons that people become parents and the effects that parental roles have on peoples life adjustments. Little is known about the motivation for parenthood. Questions remain to be answered such as: 1) What kinds of instinct or socialization l…
Population: Quantity Versus Quality
Voluntary Childlessness and Social Policy: An Alternative View
Research on voluntary childlessness has implications for at least three kinds of situations wherein social policies arefiormulated and enacted: first, the relationship between citizens and politicians in which pronatalist policies are expounded; second, the relationship between clients and professional counselors in which parenthood is advocated; and third, the relationship between patients and physicians in which access to fertility control is r…
The Moral Careers of Voluntarily Childless Wives: Notes on the Defense of a Variant World View
Single Blessedness: Observations on the Single Status in Married Society
Voluntary Childlessness: A Review of Issues and Evidence
No abstract available for this article
Body Politics: Power, Sex, and Nonverbal Communication
The Heathen Canadians: Demographic Correlates of Nonbelief
The sociology of religion has tended to ignore the phenomenon of nonreligious persons. The Canadian census has always collected data on religious identity, but it was not until 1971 that a separate response category of “no religion” was provided. At that time, of all Canadians over the age of 15, 4.44% reported they had “no religion.” The distribution of persons with “no religion” suggests it is negatively correlated with age, it is more common a…
Childless by Choice
Childless by Choice
Having Children: Philosophical and Legal Reflections on Parenthood
Women in the driver's seat: Trends in sex differences in driving and death
Fertility and population regulation: Differential childlessness by color: A further examination
In the past, childlessness has been more common among nonwhites than among whites. Since the 1940's, the incidence of all kinds of childlessness has declined sharply. However, the decline in childlessness has been much more rapid among nonwhite couples, until, for younger cohorts, childlessness is more common among whites than nonwhites
The Childbearing Decision
Accelerating sex differentials in mortality: An analysis of contributing factors
An analysis of mortality rates documents that the well‐established female advantage in mortality continues to increase. Data from the U.S. census show that the sex differential in mortality has increased from 1.69 in 1963 to 1.82 in 1976. The age groups which show the most pronounced changes are youth (15–24), young adults (25–34), and old persons (75–84). Following Enterline (1961), we assess the major causes of death within each of these age gr…
Age-discrepant marriages: Cross-national comparisons of Canadian-American trends
Comparisons of age‐discrepant marriages ideally involve data which are collected at the time of marriage and which are available by single years of age for the same population over time. Although such data are not available for Canadian‐American comparisons, approximations of them are derived from the United States census, from marriage statistics (including statistics for California and for British Columbia), and from selected fortuitous studies…
Increasing Sex Mortality Differentials among Black Americans, 1950-1978
At the turn of the century the sex mortality ratio (SMR) for US blacks was 1.06; by 1950 the ratio had increased to 1.24 and in 1978 it was up to 1.76. While both whites and blacks exhibit a trend of increase in the SMR the pattern of the increase differs. Although blacks have experienced greater gains in mortality reduction than whites in this century the current racial difference in mortality is such that the life expectancy at birth of blacks …
The Social Meaning of Pets: Alternative Roles for Companion Animals
When companion animal interact closely with people, the roles they play may be categorized in terms of three major functions. The projective function involves the extent to which pets may serve as a symbolic extension of the self. The sociability function involves the role of pets in facilitating human-to-human interaction. The surrogate function involves the extent to which interaction with pets may supplement human-to-human interaction, or serv…
Sociology (26 works) · Demography (19 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (15 works) · Population (15 works) · Fertility (11 works) · Childlessness (10 works) · Demography (9 works) · Census (8 works) · Economics (8 works)