Jan Trost
Biographic Data
| ID | 154369 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Trost |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Trost |
| SIGNATURE | TROST J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 182 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Marriage, Cohabitation and LAT Relationships
As long as we know, marriages have always existed in Europe. When Christianity came the rituals also came or changed. In, for example, Iceland, these new rituals were only to some extent accepted for hundreds of years. In most other countries marriage the Christian way became also a concern for the states. And the few existing non-marital cohabitation couples were "deviants" in the meaning that they did not follow the rules of the social institut…
Perspectives on Qualitative Interviews
A Theoretical Introduction to Family and Mobility
A theoretical model for everyday behavior is presented based upon ideas of choice and chance. Argumented is that most of our behavior is a set of activities based upon chance even when we in everyday language we call them made by choice. The Self acts spontaneously when no evident alternative is there and the activities are by chance, they just happen. The theoretical model is applied upon the phenomenon of parents leaving their children for a li…
The Social Institution of Marriage
During the 40 years of the Journal of Comparative Family Studies the social institution of marriage has subsequently all over the Western world split up into three varieties: the traditional marriage is still there and now we also have non-marital cohabitation as well as LAT relationships (Living Apart Together). In this article the changes are presented together with an analysis of what has happened not only descriptively but also theoretically.…
The Politics of Education in the New South: Women and Reform in Georgia, 1890-1930
Rebecca S. Montgomery seeks to do for white women's history what has been done for African American women's history: examine changing household relations in the wake of the end of slavery and the coming of industrialization. Indeed, The Politics of Education in the New South expands the familiar histories of Progressivism to cover previously unexamined groups of white female education reformers in the rural South. The author argues that white sou…
Handbook of World Families
Step Family as Dyads - Direct and Indirect Relationships
With the background in the confusions about the meaning of the term family, step-family as a concept and idea is studied. Traditionally, the nuclear family acts as a model and an ideological code in everyday life as well as in scholarly work. Here is shown, with step-families as examples, that a person's family has members from various households. The step-family household is not the same as step-fami ly. Dyadic analysis shows how some members ar…
Family as a Set of Dyads
Living apart together
Traditionally, marriage has been the social institution for couples that have been together for a long period. Some decades ago a new social institution appeared in the Western world: non-marital cohabitation, although this was slower to be accepted in some countries than in others. Living Apart Together (LAT) relationships, are a new phenomenon which seems to have the potential of becoming the third stage in the process of social change. In cont…
Step-Family Variations
Family Studies in Sweden
Research on family in Sweden has recently focused on developing the concept of family. Trost has suggested the utility of conceptualizing family as a set of dyads, thus allowing for many families within a family. Qualitative methods have been used to examine family from this perspective in research and clinical practice. Research on family in Sweden has focused on change, particularly in such areas of investigation as marriage and cohabitation, g…
Family Structure and Relationships: The Dyadic Approach
Many attempts have been made at defining family and most have been successful. By successful I mean here that the definitions have been accepted by an important number of followers. But. the definitions have all been seriously questioned by others and ha
Family from a Dyadic Perspective
There are a great number of concepts connected to the term family. These concepts are quite different from one another and many are unclear. The term and the concept dyad are used to sort the differences to provide greater understanding. To demonstrate how the dyadic approach can successfully be used, some illustrative data are presented. The data come from legislation as well as from qualitative and quantitative studies
Male multiple orgasms: A descriptive study
Small States in Comparative Perspective: Essays for Erik Allardt
Conceptualising the Family
There have been many attempts to define the concept of family. The approach taken here is that there is no possibility of defining the family. A solution is suggested, which is to say that if a group consists of at least one parent-child unit and/or at least one spousal unit the group is a family. The parent-child unit is defined as one parent and one child related to each other and the spousal unit is defined as two adults cohabiting (maritally …
The Adolescent Dilemma: International Perspectives on the Family Planning Rights of Minors
This reference book provides information on the family planning rights of minors in eleven countries in North America and Western Europe. The Adolescent Dilemma covers a minor's legal rights to abortion services and birth control. In addition, this comprehensive resource discusses sex education, sexual behavior, and the nature and extent of contraceptive practices. The introduction presents a framework for discussing minors' rights and the conclu…
Custody: An Attempt Toward A Conceptual Clarification
Especially the Californian, the Nor- weigian, and the Swedish recent laws on custody are discussed and compared. Emphasis is laid upon both sole and joint custody as well as legal and physical custody. The background for joint custody in California as well as in Norway were demands from divorcing parents, while in Sweden the demands came from cohabiting parents. These demands came mainly at the end of the 1960s, in Sweden based upon an increase i…
Chapter 7: Legal Changes and the Role of Fathers: Swedish Experiences
No abstract available for this article
Abortions in relation to age, coital frequency, and fecundity
Statistically nonrepresentative stratified sampling: A sampling technique for qualitative studies
What Holds Marriages Together
The question of why some divorce is turned around to the question of why some do not divorce When a number of marital bonds keeping marriages together are weakened, the likelihood of divorce Increases Initially , only an emotional bond exists, by and by more bonds form If the emotional bond disappears, the other bonds might keep the marriage intact. The increase in the divorce rate is explained in the various marital bonds
Swedish solutions
Abandon Adjustment
Joint Custody of Children
In both USA and Sweden joint custody has been a question under heavy debate during the 1970's. In USA joint custody has been looked upon as a possibility for children of divorcing and divorced parents while in Sweden the issue was brought under debate as an issue for couples not being married but cohabiting together under marriage-like conditions having minor children together. In many of the states in USA there are possibilities for a joint cust…
Statistically nonrepresentative stratified sampling: A sampling technique for qualitative studies
Living apart together
Traditionally, marriage has been the social institution for couples that have been together for a long period. Some decades ago a new social institution appeared in the Western world: non-marital cohabitation, although this was slower to be accepted in some countries than in others. Living Apart Together (LAT) relationships, are a new phenomenon which seems to have the potential of becoming the third stage in the process of social change. In cont…
A Renewed Social Institution: Non-marital Cohabitation
In this article it is shown that cohabitation (not legally married but living under marriage-like conditions) is an old Nordic tradition still remaining to some extent in Iceland and frequently occurring in Sweden and Denmark. Evidence proves that the ancient tradition of cohabitation is returning. It is assumed that the phenomenon of a post-industrialized society is instrumental in causing the societal change into this renewed social institution…
Married and Unmarried Cohabitation: The Case of Sweden, with Some Comparisons
There are many implicit and explicit definitions of terms like cohabitation. The author uses a phenomenological definition, which means that unmarried cohabitation is used for the phenomenon of living together under marriage-like conditions but without a marriage. It is shown that there has been an enormous increase in the number of unmarried cohabiting couples in Sweden and Denmark and a decrease in the marriage rate. Data presented show that Sw…
Family from a Dyadic Perspective
There are a great number of concepts connected to the term family. These concepts are quite different from one another and many are unclear. The term and the concept dyad are used to sort the differences to provide greater understanding. To demonstrate how the dyadic approach can successfully be used, some illustrative data are presented. The data come from legislation as well as from qualitative and quantitative studies
Conceptualising the Family
There have been many attempts to define the concept of family. The approach taken here is that there is no possibility of defining the family. A solution is suggested, which is to say that if a group consists of at least one parent-child unit and/or at least one spousal unit the group is a family. The parent-child unit is defined as one parent and one child related to each other and the spousal unit is defined as two adults cohabiting (maritally …
The Concept of One-Parent Family
The concept of one parent family is a heterogenous concept and in this article the phenomenon of the existing bonds after the dissolution of a Primary group are hinted at. A property space analysis including some of the most important variables when looking upon the transmission from a two parent family into a one parent family is presented and discussed
What Holds Marriages Together
The question of why some divorce is turned around to the question of why some do not divorce When a number of marital bonds keeping marriages together are weakened, the likelihood of divorce Increases Initially , only an emotional bond exists, by and by more bonds form If the emotional bond disappears, the other bonds might keep the marriage intact. The increase in the divorce rate is explained in the various marital bonds
Attitudes toward and Occurrence of Cohabitation without Marriage
Since 1966, the marriage rate has decreased enormously in Sweden and the rate of cohabitation without marriage has increased more than the decrease in the marriage rate. Thus, the total number of cohabiting dyads (married and unmarried) has increased. This means that the Swedes are familiar with both the term and the concept of unmarried cohabitation. Interview data from a representative sample of Swedes is presented in this paper. The questions …
Some Data on Mate-Selection: Homogamy and Perceived Homogamy
In this article data from an interview survey among newlyweds and couples who have published the bans, concerning the mate selection situation, are presented; and aspects concerning homogamy are
Mate Selection, Marital Adjustment, and Symbolic Environment
We will here examine a few hypotheses or theories which have to do with mate-selection. With the assistance of parts of these we will, in addition, treat some aspects of marital adjustment. Among the old ways of thinking about mate-selection, we find the conceptions homogamy and heterogamy. The hypothesis of homogamy commonly says that the choice of a spouse will be (unconsciously or consciously) done so that the spouses are alike as much as poss…
Marriage, Cohabitation and LAT Relationships
As long as we know, marriages have always existed in Europe. When Christianity came the rituals also came or changed. In, for example, Iceland, these new rituals were only to some extent accepted for hundreds of years. In most other countries marriage the Christian way became also a concern for the states. And the few existing non-marital cohabitation couples were "deviants" in the meaning that they did not follow the rules of the social institut…
The Social Institution of Marriage
During the 40 years of the Journal of Comparative Family Studies the social institution of marriage has subsequently all over the Western world split up into three varieties: the traditional marriage is still there and now we also have non-marital cohabitation as well as LAT relationships (Living Apart Together). In this article the changes are presented together with an analysis of what has happened not only descriptively but also theoretically.…
Family as a Set of Dyads
Family Structure and Relationships: The Dyadic Approach
Many attempts have been made at defining family and most have been successful. By successful I mean here that the definitions have been accepted by an important number of followers. But. the definitions have all been seriously questioned by others and ha
Coalitions in Triads
Step-Family Variations
Family Studies in Sweden
Research on family in Sweden has recently focused on developing the concept of family. Trost has suggested the utility of conceptualizing family as a set of dyads, thus allowing for many families within a family. Qualitative methods have been used to examine family from this perspective in research and clinical practice. Research on family in Sweden has focused on change, particularly in such areas of investigation as marriage and cohabitation, g…
Swedish solutions
Measurement of Emotions in Different Groups
One of the prerequisites for the continuation of a society is that people can communicate with each other in an adequate way. This is mainly done by using the written or spoken word. By means of words we pass on thoughts, ideas, reactions and feelings. What interests us here is what may be called verbal communication. In everyday verbal communication people often presuppose that every word used by them has the same meaning to those they address a…
Symbolic Environment and Liking
George C. Homans (1950) has set forth an assumption about the relation between interaction and liking: the frequency of interaction between two or more persons increases, the degree of their liking for one another will increase, and vice versa. (p. 112). After some criticism concerning the generality of the assumption, he has added that the thesis is valid only when the interaction is not forced (1961, p. 186-187). This reasonably means that if o…
Coalitions in Triads
Mate Selection, Marital Adjustment, and Symbolic Environment
We will here examine a few hypotheses or theories which have to do with mate-selection. With the assistance of parts of these we will, in addition, treat some aspects of marital adjustment. Among the old ways of thinking about mate-selection, we find the conceptions homogamy and heterogamy. The hypothesis of homogamy commonly says that the choice of a spouse will be (unconsciously or consciously) done so that the spouses are alike as much as poss…
Some Data on Mate-Selection: Homogamy and Perceived Homogamy
In this article data from an interview survey among newlyweds and couples who have published the bans, concerning the mate selection situation, are presented; and aspects concerning homogamy are
Some Data on Mate-Selection: Complementarity
In this article data from an interview survey among newlyweds and couples who have 'published the bans, concerning the mate-selection situation, are presented, and aspects concerned with complemen
Notes and Comments: On Renovating Marriage
Married and Unmarried Cohabitation: The Case of Sweden, with Some Comparisons
There are many implicit and explicit definitions of terms like cohabitation. The author uses a phenomenological definition, which means that unmarried cohabitation is used for the phenomenon of living together under marriage-like conditions but without a marriage. It is shown that there has been an enormous increase in the number of unmarried cohabiting couples in Sweden and Denmark and a decrease in the marriage rate. Data presented show that Sw…
Attitudes toward and Occurrence of Cohabitation without Marriage
Since 1966, the marriage rate has decreased enormously in Sweden and the rate of cohabitation without marriage has increased more than the decrease in the marriage rate. Thus, the total number of cohabiting dyads (married and unmarried) has increased. This means that the Swedes are familiar with both the term and the concept of unmarried cohabitation. Interview data from a representative sample of Swedes is presented in this paper. The questions …
A Renewed Social Institution: Non-marital Cohabitation
In this article it is shown that cohabitation (not legally married but living under marriage-like conditions) is an old Nordic tradition still remaining to some extent in Iceland and frequently occurring in Sweden and Denmark. Evidence proves that the ancient tradition of cohabitation is returning. It is assumed that the phenomenon of a post-industrialized society is instrumental in causing the societal change into this renewed social institution…
Unmarried Cohabitation in Sweden
The Concept of One-Parent Family
The concept of one parent family is a heterogenous concept and in this article the phenomenon of the existing bonds after the dissolution of a Primary group are hinted at. A property space analysis including some of the most important variables when looking upon the transmission from a two parent family into a one parent family is presented and discussed
Unmarried Cohabitation
Children and Divorce in Sweden
A discussion of different types of divorce and the factors leading to different types of custody decisions is presented, based of Swedish data. The effects of custody decisions on the child are briefly discussed. A classification of different custodial decisions and family situations follows. A study of satisfaction with family situation among Swedish women is presented and analyzed according to formal marital status, presence of stepchildren, an…
Joint Custody of Children
In both USA and Sweden joint custody has been a question under heavy debate during the 1970's. In USA joint custody has been looked upon as a possibility for children of divorcing and divorced parents while in Sweden the issue was brought under debate as an issue for couples not being married but cohabiting together under marriage-like conditions having minor children together. In many of the states in USA there are possibilities for a joint cust…
Swedish solutions
Abandon Adjustment
Chapter 7: Legal Changes and the Role of Fathers: Swedish Experiences
No abstract available for this article
Abortions in relation to age, coital frequency, and fecundity
Statistically nonrepresentative stratified sampling: A sampling technique for qualitative studies
What Holds Marriages Together
The question of why some divorce is turned around to the question of why some do not divorce When a number of marital bonds keeping marriages together are weakened, the likelihood of divorce Increases Initially , only an emotional bond exists, by and by more bonds form If the emotional bond disappears, the other bonds might keep the marriage intact. The increase in the divorce rate is explained in the various marital bonds
The Adolescent Dilemma: International Perspectives on the Family Planning Rights of Minors
This reference book provides information on the family planning rights of minors in eleven countries in North America and Western Europe. The Adolescent Dilemma covers a minor's legal rights to abortion services and birth control. In addition, this comprehensive resource discusses sex education, sexual behavior, and the nature and extent of contraceptive practices. The introduction presents a framework for discussing minors' rights and the conclu…
Custody: An Attempt Toward A Conceptual Clarification
Especially the Californian, the Nor- weigian, and the Swedish recent laws on custody are discussed and compared. Emphasis is laid upon both sole and joint custody as well as legal and physical custody. The background for joint custody in California as well as in Norway were demands from divorcing parents, while in Sweden the demands came from cohabiting parents. These demands came mainly at the end of the 1960s, in Sweden based upon an increase i…
Small States in Comparative Perspective: Essays for Erik Allardt
Conceptualising the Family
There have been many attempts to define the concept of family. The approach taken here is that there is no possibility of defining the family. A solution is suggested, which is to say that if a group consists of at least one parent-child unit and/or at least one spousal unit the group is a family. The parent-child unit is defined as one parent and one child related to each other and the spousal unit is defined as two adults cohabiting (maritally …
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