John Scanzoni
Biographic Data
| ID | 77623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Scanzoni |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Scanzoni |
| SIGNATURE | SCANZONI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 85 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 198 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 85 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Marriage
Updating Engels, the historical development of marriage is analyzed from pre‐patriarchy through patriarchy to the contemporary struggle between patriarchy and Enlightenment advocates. Advocates consist predominately of advantaged (well‐educated, upper‐middle‐class) persons (straight/gay) crafting egalitarian relationships (legal/nonlegal) blending sexual with emotional gratifications while optimizing access to production for both genders and faci…
Gay Rights At The Ballot Box
Structural-Functionalism
A Personal and Intellectual Journey
L'A. etablit une connexion entre son experience familiale d'une eglise fondamentaliste et le climat universitaire des annees 1960. L'A. note l'influence qu'ont pu exercer le fonctionnalisme, puis les travaux de Margaret Mead dans ses interets de chercheur. L'A. decrit avec precautions comment ses propres conceptions de la famille ont evolue vers une construction tres malleable, sans contrainte structurale. Il se situe en desaccord avec ceux qui d…
From the Normal Family to Alternate Families to the Quest for Diversity With Interdependence
This article traces the development of changes internal to households since the late 1960s. The discussion is set in the context of two competing theories-constructionism and functionalism, old and new. The notion of varieties of families is distinguished from household diversity. Variety refers simply to what are known as family variants or alternative lifestyles. Diversity is indicated by a structural and spatial situation in which there is bot…
Reconnecting Household and Community: An Alternative Strategy for Theory and Policy
The aim of this article is to sketch the outlines of a social and spatial arrangement linking the household with its neighborhood. The fundamental theoretical and policy issue considered here is the sufficiency of the model of household isolation that has prevailed in the United States since the post-World War II era. Contrary to Talcott Parsons, who viewed that model as the end point of family evolution, critics at the time perceived it as havin…
The Household in Its Neighborhood and Community: An Introduction
Family: The Making of an Idea, an Institution, and a Controversy in American Culture
Designing Families: The Search for Self and Community in the Information Age
Rethinking The Roles of Japanese Women
INTRODUCTION Japanese women have often been portrayed as submissive, subordinate, oppressed and passive. In the l9th and the early 20th centuries in the framework of orientalism, Japanese women were treated as a homogeneous group, who were described as tiny personage with narrow eyes and no brains (Loti, 1920:272). Following the tremendous economic success, Japan has attracted enormous attention and curiosity from the West, especially regarding t…
New Action Theory and Contemporary Families
Growing diversities among families and households throughout Western societies are documented. The prevailing conceptual approach has been to distinguish 'the family' from alternative life-styles. That dichotomy, rooted in functionalist thought ('old action theory') is rejected. Drawing on what is called 'new action theory' a model for conceptualizing contemporary families is presented. The model assumes that persons construct their families with…
Perceptions of parenting behavior and young women's gender role traits and preferences
The Sexual Bond: Rethinking Families and Close Relationships
Wider Families As Primary Relationships
No abstract available for this article
Old Wine in Old Wineskins
Negotiation Effectiveness and Acceptable Outcomes
Rather than focusing merely on who wins in marital negotiations, as much previous research has done, this study focuses on subjective aspects of negotiation outcomes, as well as on couples' actual negotiation behavior. Four dimensions-husband's and wife's gain, the fairness of the outcome, their consensus regarding the outcome, and their affect toward each other after negotiation-are considered and tested as dimensions of subjective outcomes. Neg…
The Sexual Bond: Rethinking Families and Close Relationships
Framing the Problem A Fresh Construct Theoretical Dimensions Underlying the Sexually Bonded Primary Relationship Elements Within the Relationship Toward a Model of Developing Sexually Mutual Influences Between the Developing Relationship and Its Developing Environment Influences Among Relationships, Children, and Adults The Impact of Women's Work and Occupational Structure Research Models and Observation Plans Prologue to Research and Application
Relative Strangers: Studies of Stepfamily Processes
Relative Strangers studies the stepfamily as a social system in its own right, and examines the processes at work in this system. A sociological study of the stepfamily, this book will appeal to social workers, counsellors, family therapists, sociologists, teachers and educated readers interested in the American family
The Sexual Bond: Rethinking Families and Close Relationships
Men, Women, and Change: A Sociology of Marriage and Family
Alternative Images for Public Policy: Family Structure Versus Families Struggling
A constrast is drawn between public policy and programmatic implementations of policy. The argument is made that conservatives possess a coherent and thoughtful family policy, whereas progressives are devoid of such a policy. Lacking any "high moral ground" progressives find themselves on the defensive when proposing specific programs. Consequently guidelines for a progressive policy for families is proposed, along with examples of programs that …
Process power and decision outcomes among Dual-Career couples
This paper confirms and extends the methodological and analytical issues developed in the recent studies of power and decision making in dual married couples. The objective was to determine which of the measured disparities in context variables were most predictive of decision-making process power outcomes and subjective outcomes in dual-career married couples. Data were collected from 51 upper-middle class married couples from an urban North Car…
Couple Consensus during Marital Joint Decision-Making: A Context, Process, Outcome Model
This study tests a conceptual model of the context, processes, and outcomes of joint marital decision-making. Alternative conceptualizations of partners' coerciveness, control, and consensus as individual versus couple constructs were assessed. Data collected via both observational and self-report methods from 188 married couples were analyzed by using the LISREL VI program. A model specifying spouses' process variables as individual-level measur…
Understanding Family Policy: Theoretical Approaches
PART ONE: LAYING THE FOUNDATION Family Policy Definitions, Domain and Concepts Developments in Family Policy Reflections of Social Change An Institutional Perspective PART TWO: FRAMEWORKS FOR UNDERSTANDING POLICY/FAMILY CONNECTIONS Policy Frameworks Families as Social Systems Other Family Frameworks PART THREE: APPLICATIONS OF FRAMEWORKS TO FAMILY POLICIES Welfare Reform Individual and Family Well-Being The Mental Retardation Family Subsidy Progr…
The Sexual Bond: Rethinking Families and Close Relationships
Sex Roles, Family and Society: The Seventies and Beyond
The decade literature is divided into studies of children and preteens, adolescents and young adults, and marrieds. The amorphous nature of the term is discussed, and a model of gender-based decision making, applicable at both macro and micro levels, is offered as one way to specify relations between the sexes. Existing literature is then subsumed within the model; while suggestions are made to increase the sophistication of the next decade's sex…
Sex Roles, Economic Factors, and Marital Solidarity in Black and White Marriages
A major consequence of the Moynihan Report was to focus on black conjugal patterns a degree of attention that had simply not been there before. Besides detailed census analyses there appeared a variety of publications by independent investigators (Liebow, 1967; Billingsley, 1968; Rainwater, 1970; Willie, 1970; Scanzoni, 1971; Staples, 1971). Out of the numerous issues raised by this rapidly expanding literature, we wish to focus on only two inter…
Couple Consensus during Marital Joint Decision-Making: A Context, Process, Outcome Model
This study tests a conceptual model of the context, processes, and outcomes of joint marital decision-making. Alternative conceptualizations of partners' coerciveness, control, and consensus as individual versus couple constructs were assessed. Data collected via both observational and self-report methods from 188 married couples were analyzed by using the LISREL VI program. A model specifying spouses' process variables as individual-level measur…
Sex Roles, Women's Work, and Marital Conflict
New Action Theory and Contemporary Families
Growing diversities among families and households throughout Western societies are documented. The prevailing conceptual approach has been to distinguish 'the family' from alternative life-styles. That dichotomy, rooted in functionalist thought ('old action theory') is rejected. Drawing on what is called 'new action theory' a model for conceptualizing contemporary families is presented. The model assumes that persons construct their families with…
Perceptions of parenting behavior and young women's gender role traits and preferences
Wider Families As Primary Relationships
No abstract available for this article
Enlarging the Understanding of Marital Commitment via Religious Devoutness, Gender Role Preferences, and Locus of Marital Control
Reference is made to the literature showing that marital commitment (defined by Becker as a 'bet' on the future) has been strongly affected by variables such as love/caring and positive conflict resolution. The issue raised in this study is whether, given the continuing changes in female/male relationships over the past 20 years, additional factors stemming from those gender-based changes might gradually become part of a syndrome affecting the na…
An Approach for Assessing Marital Decision-Making Processes
Recent years have witnessed the emergence of a vast literature evaluating the research and theory pertaining to family decision making. Since we cannot survey that literature here, we merely cite prior exhaustive reviews (Cromwell and Olson, 1975; McDonald, 1980) and proceed directly to one of the issues that surfaces repeatedly throughout that literature, namely, the conceptualization and measurement of decisionmaking processes. Although there w…
A Conceptual Approach to Explicit Marital Negotiation
Sex Role Change and Influences on Birth Intentions
Samples of college students from two different points in time are drawn and compared in terms of gender role norms and relationships to an array of variables with particular focus on birth intentions. It was found that over time both men and women have become less sex role traditional that these measures of sex role norms do predict birth intentions at both time periods and that the strength of this relationship has also increased over time. (aut…
A Note on the Sufficiency of Wife Responses in Family Research
Contemporary Marriage Types: A Research Note
Gender preferences, sex predetermination, and family size in the United States
Past and present research on gender preference and the likely impact of sex predetermination on family size among white couples in the U.S. are discussed. 1 research style involves asking people about their preferences for children of each gender and then depending on the responses estimating the likely impact of sex predetermination on fertility. A second research style involves the classification of respondents according to their parity at inte…
From the Normal Family to Alternate Families to the Quest for Diversity With Interdependence
This article traces the development of changes internal to households since the late 1960s. The discussion is set in the context of two competing theories-constructionism and functionalism, old and new. The notion of varieties of families is distinguished from household diversity. Variety refers simply to what are known as family variants or alternative lifestyles. Diversity is indicated by a structural and spatial situation in which there is bot…
Sex-Role Influences on Married Women's Status Attainments
While much is known regarding male status attainments, by comparison less is known regarding such phenomena among married women. In particular, little has been done to try to relate sex roles to these kinds of issues. This paper attempts to make such an application. It is based on data collected from younger, white, married women interviewed at two points in time. The results confirm the idea that sex roles should be included in future studies of…
Changing Sex Roles and Emerging Directions in Family Decision Making
Journal Article Changing Sex Roles and Emerging Directions in Family Decision Making Get access John Scanzoni John Scanzoni Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 4, Issue 3, December 1977, Pages 185–188, https://doi.org/10.1086/208698 Published: 01 December 1977
Process power and decision outcomes among Dual-Career couples
This paper confirms and extends the methodological and analytical issues developed in the recent studies of power and decision making in dual married couples. The objective was to determine which of the measured disparities in context variables were most predictive of decision-making process power outcomes and subjective outcomes in dual-career married couples. Data were collected from 51 upper-middle class married couples from an urban North Car…
Families in the 1980s: Time to Refocus Our Thinking
The state of American families in the 1980s is examined in the light of a series of issues regarding the paradigm currently prevailing within family studies. On the basis of those issues, the question is raised whether or not an alternative perspective might more validly describe currently emerging family-type empirical realities. The outlines of such a perspective are described, drawing on the emerging cross-disciplinary focus on close or primar…
Gender Roles and the Process of Fertility Control
A systematic analysis of the process of family fertility control in relation to gender role norms is attempted. A subsample of couples only ever married to each other was drawn from the east north-central metropolitan areas of the U.S. 2 role norms were selected - equal - and junior-partner status. The strongest predictor of birth intentions is the equal- vs. junior-partner status. The more qualitarian the couples are the fewer children they inte…
A Social System Analysis of Dissolved and Existing Marriages
The issue of order and disorder withirt the conjugal family is examined from the standpoint of the four elements of family organization and interaction suggested by Bell and Vogel. A sample of existing marriages is compared with a sample of dissolved marriages over economic-, community-, authority-, and ideological-type variables. Existing marriages were characterized by greater convergence over economicand community-type variables and lesser con…
Socialization, n Achievement, and Achievement Values
In this paper, data have been presented to illustrate the utility of looking at the relationship of fathers' career mobility and intergenerational mobility. Extending the usual consideration in intergenerational mobility studies of an origin class to include the father's career mobility may well refine the relationships observed between intergenerational mobility and such facets of social behavior as fertility, voting, and mental illness. It is m…
Reconnecting Household and Community: An Alternative Strategy for Theory and Policy
The aim of this article is to sketch the outlines of a social and spatial arrangement linking the household with its neighborhood. The fundamental theoretical and policy issue considered here is the sufficiency of the model of household isolation that has prevailed in the United States since the post-World War II era. Contrary to Talcott Parsons, who viewed that model as the end point of family evolution, critics at the time perceived it as havin…
Negotiation Effectiveness and Acceptable Outcomes
Rather than focusing merely on who wins in marital negotiations, as much previous research has done, this study focuses on subjective aspects of negotiation outcomes, as well as on couples' actual negotiation behavior. Four dimensions-husband's and wife's gain, the fairness of the outcome, their consensus regarding the outcome, and their affect toward each other after negotiation-are considered and tested as dimensions of subjective outcomes. Neg…
Alternative Images for Public Policy: Family Structure Versus Families Struggling
A constrast is drawn between public policy and programmatic implementations of policy. The argument is made that conservatives possess a coherent and thoughtful family policy, whereas progressives are devoid of such a policy. Lacking any "high moral ground" progressives find themselves on the defensive when proposing specific programs. Consequently guidelines for a progressive policy for families is proposed, along with examples of programs that …
A Note on Method for the Church-Sect Typology
An attempt is made to render the church-sect typology empirically useful. Several dimensions of the ideal type are isolated and indicators developed for each on the basis of recently formulated definitions of church and sect. A sample of Protestant clergymen is classified into both polar categories as well as into an intermediate category. Suggestions are made as to how such a classification scheme might be used in the development of systematic t…
A Note on the Sufficiency of Wife Responses in Family Research
Resolution of Occupational-Conjugal Role Conflict in Clergy Marriages
A Reinquiry into Marital Disorganization
The issue of marital disorganization is discussed in a context of relationships to external networks. Historically, there appears to be some connection between integration of the nuclear unit into the blood kin, and lower rates of dissolution. Currently, it is suggested that integration with certain kinds of external networks, other than the blood kin, may be inversely related to disorganization of the nuclear unit. To account for differing rates…
Innovation and Constancy in the Church-Sect Typology
Inconclusiveness in Family Sources of Achievement
The Unwed Mother
Family Organization and the Probability of Disorganization
It is suggested that the notion that family disorganization should be viewed in evaluative terms is theoretically sterile. Instead the question is raised as to the conditions of order-disorder within the conjugal family. Certain relevant variables are indicated which, when combined in different ways, suggest five different patterns of husband-wife interaction. These patterns are then compared in terms of the selected variables as to their relativ…
Socialization, n Achievement, and Achievement Values
In this paper, data have been presented to illustrate the utility of looking at the relationship of fathers' career mobility and intergenerational mobility. Extending the usual consideration in intergenerational mobility studies of an origin class to include the father's career mobility may well refine the relationships observed between intergenerational mobility and such facets of social behavior as fertility, voting, and mental illness. It is m…
Occupation and Family Differentiation
(1967). Occupation and Family Differentiation. The Sociological Quarterly: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 187-198
A Social System Analysis of Dissolved and Existing Marriages
The issue of order and disorder withirt the conjugal family is examined from the standpoint of the four elements of family organization and interaction suggested by Bell and Vogel. A sample of existing marriages is compared with a sample of dissolved marriages over economic-, community-, authority-, and ideological-type variables. Existing marriages were characterized by greater convergence over economicand community-type variables and lesser con…
Readings in Social Problems
Opportunity and the Family
The Black Family in Modern Society
Continuities in the Explanation of Fertility Control
Fertility control is discussed in terms of reward alternatives to having children. Changes in female sex-role definitions (found especially among younger women) particularly the increased orientation toward individual occupational achievement appear to affect family size desires and hence contraceptive efficacy and completed family size. Various studies of the relationship between sex-role (in terms of tradition and the womens self concept) and f…
The Black Family in Modern Society
Opportunity and the Family
The Black Family in Modern Society
Gender preferences, sex predetermination, and family size in the United States
Past and present research on gender preference and the likely impact of sex predetermination on family size among white couples in the U.S. are discussed. 1 research style involves asking people about their preferences for children of each gender and then depending on the responses estimating the likely impact of sex predetermination on fertility. A second research style involves the classification of respondents according to their parity at inte…
Sex Roles, Economic Factors, and Marital Solidarity in Black and White Marriages
A major consequence of the Moynihan Report was to focus on black conjugal patterns a degree of attention that had simply not been there before. Besides detailed census analyses there appeared a variety of publications by independent investigators (Liebow, 1967; Billingsley, 1968; Rainwater, 1970; Willie, 1970; Scanzoni, 1971; Staples, 1971). Out of the numerous issues raised by this rapidly expanding literature, we wish to focus on only two inter…
Gender Roles and the Process of Fertility Control
A systematic analysis of the process of family fertility control in relation to gender role norms is attempted. A subsample of couples only ever married to each other was drawn from the east north-central metropolitan areas of the U.S. 2 role norms were selected - equal - and junior-partner status. The strongest predictor of birth intentions is the equal- vs. junior-partner status. The more qualitarian the couples are the fewer children they inte…
Sex Role Change and Influences on Birth Intentions
Samples of college students from two different points in time are drawn and compared in terms of gender role norms and relationships to an array of variables with particular focus on birth intentions. It was found that over time both men and women have become less sex role traditional that these measures of sex role norms do predict birth intentions at both time periods and that the strength of this relationship has also increased over time. (aut…
Sex Roles, Life Styles, and Childbearing
Power in Families
The Family, Marriage, and Social Change
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