Dudley L Poston
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 87097 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Dudley L Poston |
| NOMBRES | Dudley L |
| APELLIDO | Poston |
| FIRMA | POSTON D L |
| AFILIACIONES | Texas A&M University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 119 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 527 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 116 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1972 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Demography
This entry discusses the definition of demography and the meaning of “population.” It examines some of the early writings about population, paying particular attention to the work and contributions of Malthus, but also considering other population theorists. It covers the major theory of demography, demographic transition theory, that was developed by demographers to help our understanding of overall population change that societies experience as…
Sociological Human Ecology
This chapter discusses the development of Amos H. Hawley’s theoretical perspective on sociological human ecology, focusing on his 1950 book, although some of his other work will also be identified and discussed in order to place his ideas within the proper perspective. It examines the two major theoretical models or paradigms which are pre-eminent in contemporary sociological human ecology: the ecological complex model and the sustenance organiza…
Handbook of Population
Apportionment of the US House of Representatives in 2020 under Alternative Immigration-Based Scenarios
The Oxford Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society
Fundamental Cause Theory
Fundamental cause theory focuses on the relationship between socioeconomic status, health outcomes, and life expectancy. Socioeconomically advantaged individuals live longer and are healthier than the socioeconomically disadvantaged. The theory aims to provide a framework for examining health disparities.
Population
This entry has four sections. We first introduce demography, its principal subject matter, its main concepts, and its general perspectives. Next we review and discuss some of the major writings and theories about population and demography. The classic demographic transition theory (DTT) is the most well‐known explanation in demography, and we discuss it in the third section. Demographic developments in many European and Asian countries have not f…
Marriages, Nuclear Family, Same‐Sex Marriages
Marriage, the nuclear family, and same‐sex marriage are concepts and lived experiences that have been shaped by cultural, economic, legal, and structural changes. This entry provides an overview of the transformation of the concepts of marriage, the nuclear family, and same‐sex marriage over time in Europe and the United States. Specifically, definitions for marriage, nuclear family, and same‐sex marriage are outlined and expanded upon. Each disc…
Abortion
The incidence and rate of abortion are discussed for the world and the United States for the first decade of the twenty‐first century.
Son Preference of Immigrants to the United States
Patterns of Gay Male and Lesbian Partnering in the Metropolitan Areas of the United States in 2010
In this paper we examine the degree of prevalence of partnered gay male households and partnered lesbian households in the metropolitan areas of the U.S. in 2010. We first discuss the same-sex partnering data from the 2010 U.S. Census, their biases and problems, and the adjustments researchers have developed to address the problems. We add a statistical adjustment to the data and then calculate for each of the 366 metropolitan areas of the U.S. p…
The Chinese diaspora
In the present paper we draw on the extensive data resources of the 'Overseas Chinese Affairs Council in Taiwan in an analysis of the overseas Chinese worldwide as of c. 2010. We raise and endeavor to answer four basic questions: (1) How many overseas Chinese are there currently in the world? (2) How are they distributed among the world's countries and regions? (3) What have been their patterns of population change in past decades? (4) What chara…
Human Ecology
More Deaths Than Births
This article examines the prevalence and dynamics of natural decrease in the subnational populations of Europe and the United States. Natural decrease results from interactions between fertility, mortality, and migration over a protracted period. We document the greater incidence and degree of natural decrease in Europe. In the first decade of the twenty‐first century, natural decrease occurred in 58 percent of European NUTS 3 areas (“counties”) …
The Family and Social Change in Chinese Societies
China's One-child Policy and the Changing Family
China's one-child policy was initiated in late 1979. Since its inception, nearly 150 million single children have been born in China. It is believed that this generation of only children has dramatically changed family structure, family relationships, and family lifestyle in China. It has also resulted in problems and issues not previously present in Chinese families, such as smaller families, a simplification of family structure, a shift from pa…
The Economic Cost of Homosexuality
Journal Article The Economic Cost of Homosexuality: Multilevel Analyses Get access Amanda K. Baumle, Amanda K. Baumle University of Houston Direct correspondence to Amanda K. Baumle, Department of Sociology, University of Houston, 450 Philip Hoffman Hall Houston, Texas 77204. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Dudley L. Poston, Jr. Dudley L. Poston, Jr. Texas A&M University Search for…
China's unbalanced sex ratio at birth, millions of excess bachelors and societal implications
Between the 1960s and the 1990s China experienced a rapid fertility reduction, from more than six children per woman in the early 1960s to fewer than two children per woman in the 1990s. Since the 1980s this fertility reduction, one of the most rapid fertility declines in recorded human history, has resulted in significantly more boys being born each year than girls. In this article, we first develop estimates of how many extra boys have already …
Ecological Analyses of Gay Male and Lesbian Partnering in the Metropolitan United States in 2000
Understanding Falling Poverty in the Poorest Places
This study examines the structural changes that occurred between 1990 and 2000 in the two poorest regions in the United States—the Texas Borderland and the Lower Mississippi Delta—and analyzes the associations between these changes and the substantial reduction of poverty witnessed in these areas over the decade. Results show that both regions experienced noteworthy changes during the 1990s in the aggregate characteristics commonly associated wit…
Patterns of Asexuality in the United States
In this paper we use data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) to ascertain and analyze patterns of asexuality in the United States. We endeavor to extend the earlier work of Bogaert (2004) on this topic, which focused on patterns of a
Same-Sex Partners
Same-Sex Partners
Gender policy and HIV in China
Same-Sex Partners
Income and Veteran Status
Hyman, Herbert 1959 Socialization. Glencoe: Free Press. Hyman, Herbert H. and Paul B. Sheatsley 1950 The current state of American public opinion. Pp. 11-34 in National Council for Studies Yearbook. Jaros, Dean 1967 Children's orientations towards the president: some additional theoretical considerations and data. Journal of Politics, 29 (May):368-87. Jennings, M. Kent and Richard Niemi 1968a The transmission of political values from parent to ch…
The Division of Labor
Journal Article The Division of Labor: Conceptualization and Related Measures Get access Jack P. Gibbs, Jack P. Gibbs University of Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Dudley L. Poston, Jr. Dudley L. Poston, Jr. University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 53, Issue 3, March 1975, Pages 468–476, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/5…
Socioeconomic development, family planning, and fertility in China
The relationships between socioeconomic development family planning and fertility among the 28 subregions of China circa 1982 were examined. The dependent variable was the total fertility rate in 1981. The 17 development variables include many of the social economic and demographic factors shown in earlier studies to be influential in accounting for fertility among the Chinese subregions. Table 1 presents means and standard deviations for the tot…
Components of Sustenance Organization and Nonmetropolitan Population Change
An assumption basic to human ecological theory, as developed by Gibbs, Hawley, Martin and others, states that a significant relationship exists between sustenance organization and population growth or decline. The present investigation transforms this assumption into an empirically verifiable hypothesis. Several components of sustenance organization are operationalized and found to account for a substantial proportion of the variation in relative…
Patterns of Asexuality in the United States
In this paper we use data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) to ascertain and analyze patterns of asexuality in the United States. We endeavor to extend the earlier work of Bogaert (2004) on this topic, which focused on patterns of a
The Demographic and Socioeconomic Composition of China's Ethnic Minorities
Income and childlessness in the United States
The author suggests that among the voluntarily childless the relationship between income and childlessness need not necessarily be inverse. After reviewing the studies which have examined the general relationship the author focuses upon the voluntarily childless and suggests an alternative hypothesis. The hypothesis is tested indirectly with data from the 1970 U.S. Census of Population. (authors)
Trends in childlessness in the United States, 1910–1975
This paper examines trends in childlessness for ever‐married women in the United States. Data assembled from assorted census materials permit cohort and period investigations for a number of time periods, from 1910 to 1975, for various color and ethnic groups. Whether examined at the period or cohort level, the incidences in percentage rates of childlessness have varied irregularly over time. We focus particularly on the younger cohorts of white …
The Oxford Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society
Academic Performance and Personality Traits of Chinese Children
This study was undertaken to determine whether the academic and personality outcomes of only children in China are similar to those of only children in the West. Several reviews of the extensive Western literature indicate that only children are remarkably similar to children with siblings. The few differences between them are concentrated in academic areas, where only children have the advantage. In China few children grew up without siblings un…
Characteristics of voluntarily and involuntarily childless wives
Drawing upon data from the 1965 National Fertility Study, this paper attempts to categorize white wives by their form of childlessness. Three categories of childlessness emerge: Voluntary, Involuntary, and Temporary. The three types of childless wives are compared across a number of demographic, socioeconomic, marital, and religious characteristics. The Voluntarily and Involuntarily Childless wives are remarkably similar on most characteristics, …
Variations in Veteran/Nonveteran Earnings Patterns Among World War II, Korea, and Vietnam War Cohorts
China's One-child Policy and the Changing Family
China's one-child policy was initiated in late 1979. Since its inception, nearly 150 million single children have been born in China. It is believed that this generation of only children has dramatically changed family structure, family relationships, and family lifestyle in China. It has also resulted in problems and issues not previously present in Chinese families, such as smaller families, a simplification of family structure, a shift from pa…
The Chinese diaspora
In the present paper we draw on the extensive data resources of the 'Overseas Chinese Affairs Council in Taiwan in an analysis of the overseas Chinese worldwide as of c. 2010. We raise and endeavor to answer four basic questions: (1) How many overseas Chinese are there currently in the world? (2) How are they distributed among the world's countries and regions? (3) What have been their patterns of population change in past decades? (4) What chara…
The effect of climate on migration
Fertility Differences between the Majority and Minority Nationality Groups in China
Patterns of gay and lesbian partnering in the larger metropolitan areas of the United States
This paper had two objectives. First, we developed for each large metropolitan area of the United States with a population of 500,000 or more in 1990 four indexes of gay partnering and four indexes of lesbian partnering. We compared and related these indexes and their variable measurements with one another. Second, using what we argue is the statistically and demographically preferred set of gay and lesbian partnering rates, we proposed and teste…
The Current and Projected Distribution of the Elderly and Eldercare in the People's Republic of China
China is the most populous country in the world, with a population in 1999 of nearly 1.27 billion. Of even greater interest, China's elderly population (persons age 60 and older) is about 22% (or more than 128 million) of all the elderly living in the world. By 2050, China is projected to have only 14% of the world's people but will have 21% of the world's elderly. This will occur because of the rapidity with which China's age structure will shif…
The Global Distribution of the Overseas Chinese Around 1990
Chinese emigrants began to move to other Asian countries particularly in Southeast Asia thousands of years ago. Large numbers of Chinese migrated to virtually every country of the world during the 19th and early 20th centuries. There were almost 37 million overseas Chinese in 136 countries around 1990 a growth of about 10 million since early 1980 or an average annual rate of 2.7%. At that rate the number of overseas Chinese would double to about …
International Variability in Childlessness
This article provides a descriptive account of international trends and variability in marital childlessness. Childlessness data, gathered largely from census questions on number of children ever born, are presented for 65 countries. In discussing trends in childlessness, we introduce several procedures for measuring childlessness that are closely analogous to standard fertility measures. We also set forth a socioeconomic development model that s…
Sustenance Differentiation and Population Redistribution
This paper examines the extent to which sustenance differentiation— an important dimension of the division of labor—influences the redistribution of the population through net migration in the nonmetropolitan counties of the United States during the 1960s. An ecological explanation of this type is shown to be most viable, even when controls for a number of competing explanations are introduced. The evidence provided in this paper supports the lon…
China's unbalanced sex ratio at birth, millions of excess bachelors and societal implications
Between the 1960s and the 1990s China experienced a rapid fertility reduction, from more than six children per woman in the early 1960s to fewer than two children per woman in the 1990s. Since the 1980s this fertility reduction, one of the most rapid fertility declines in recorded human history, has resulted in significantly more boys being born each year than girls. In this article, we first develop estimates of how many extra boys have already …
Poverty in the Texas borderland and lower Mississippi Delta
We provide a comparative analysis of county-level poverty in the two poorest regions of the United States - the Texas Borderland and the Lower Mississippi Delta - with a special focus on differences by family type. Our results reveal important regional
Patterns of Economic Attainment of Foreign-Born Male Workers in the United States
This article is concerned with the economic attainment patterns of foreign-born male workers in the United States in 1980. The economic attainment patterns of males born in 92 countries of the world are examined and are compared among themselves, as well as among the seven principal U.S.-born groups of Anglos, Afro-American, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, Asian Americans, and American Indians. For all foreign-born groups, the …
Patterns of Economic Attainment of Foreign-Born Male Workers in the United States
Socioeconomic Status and Work-Residence Separation in Metropolitan America
The Occupational Composition of White Females
Income and Veteran Status
Hyman, Herbert 1959 Socialization. Glencoe: Free Press. Hyman, Herbert H. and Paul B. Sheatsley 1950 The current state of American public opinion. Pp. 11-34 in National Council for Studies Yearbook. Jaros, Dean 1967 Children's orientations towards the president: some additional theoretical considerations and data. Journal of Politics, 29 (May):368-87. Jennings, M. Kent and Richard Niemi 1968a The transmission of political values from parent to ch…
Intermetropolitan Migration in High and Low Opportunity Areas
Kingsley E. Haynes, Dudley L. Poston, Jr., Paul Schnirring, Intermetropolitan Migration in High and Low Opportunity Areas: Indirect Tests of the Distance and Intervening Opportunities Hypotheses, Economic Geography, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Jan., 1973), pp. 68-73
Income and childlessness in the United States
The author suggests that among the voluntarily childless the relationship between income and childlessness need not necessarily be inverse. After reviewing the studies which have examined the general relationship the author focuses upon the voluntarily childless and suggests an alternative hypothesis. The hypothesis is tested indirectly with data from the 1970 U.S. Census of Population. (authors)
Cities and Immigrants
Socioeconomic status, value orientations, and fertility behavior in India
This paper examines the role assumed by value orientations in the explanation of fertility behavior. Specifically the concern is with the extent to which value orientations intervene between, or mediate, the relationship between socioeconomic status and fertility behavior. The relationships between socioeconomic status, four types of value orientations and three aspects of fertility behavior are examined among males in India. In most instances va…
Components of Sustenance Organization and Nonmetropolitan Population Change
An assumption basic to human ecological theory, as developed by Gibbs, Hawley, Martin and others, states that a significant relationship exists between sustenance organization and population growth or decline. The present investigation transforms this assumption into an empirically verifiable hypothesis. Several components of sustenance organization are operationalized and found to account for a substantial proportion of the variation in relative…
The Division of Labor
Journal Article The Division of Labor: Conceptualization and Related Measures Get access Jack P. Gibbs, Jack P. Gibbs University of Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Dudley L. Poston, Jr. Dudley L. Poston, Jr. University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 53, Issue 3, March 1975, Pages 468–476, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/5…
Characteristics of voluntarily and involuntarily childless wives
Drawing upon data from the 1965 National Fertility Study, this paper attempts to categorize white wives by their form of childlessness. Three categories of childlessness emerge: Voluntary, Involuntary, and Temporary. The three types of childless wives are compared across a number of demographic, socioeconomic, marital, and religious characteristics. The Voluntarily and Involuntarily Childless wives are remarkably similar on most characteristics, …
Industrialization and Occupational Differentiation
Differentials in the Ability to Convert Education into Income
Walter T. Martin, Dudley L. Poston, Jr., Differentials in the Ability to Convert Education into Income: The Case of the European Ethnics, The International Migration Review, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Summer, 1977), pp. 215-231
Differentials in the Ability to Convert Education into Income
This paper investigates the extent to which European immigrant groups to the United States differentially convert their educational attainment into income. Particular attention is given to variations among 1st generation immigrants and three types of second generation immigrants. We find that 2nd generation male immigrants with foreign-born fathers and native-born mothers are best able to convert their education into income. Empirical analyses re…
Trends in childlessness in the United States, 1910–1975
This paper examines trends in childlessness for ever‐married women in the United States. Data assembled from assorted census materials permit cohort and period investigations for a number of time periods, from 1910 to 1975, for various color and ethnic groups. Whether examined at the period or cohort level, the incidences in percentage rates of childlessness have varied irregularly over time. We focus particularly on the younger cohorts of white …
The Race between Population and Food Supply in Latin America
Indigenous labor supply, sustenance organization, and population redistribution in nonmetropolitan America
The ecological theory of migration asserts that change in sustenance organization, to the extent that it produces changes in the opportunities for living, necessitates a change in population size. Migration may thus be viewed as a demographic response to the population’s need to reestablish a balance between its size and sustenance organization, thus attaining its best possible living standard. However, the levels of net in- or out-migration need…
Sustenance Differentiation and Population Redistribution
This paper examines the extent to which sustenance differentiation— an important dimension of the division of labor—influences the redistribution of the population through net migration in the nonmetropolitan counties of the United States during the 1960s. An ecological explanation of this type is shown to be most viable, even when controls for a number of competing explanations are introduced. The evidence provided in this paper supports the lon…
Variations in Veteran/Nonveteran Earnings Patterns Among World War II, Korea, and Vietnam War Cohorts
Contemporary Urban Ecology. Brian J. L. Berry, John D. Kasarda
Contemporary Topics in Urban Sociology
A Note on Stability in the U.S. Metropolitan System
The authors attempt to replicate Wanners analysis (see 44: Title 2136) of the classification of U.S. metropolitan communities as defined by Duncan (see 36: Title 3116). They use 1970 data to determine whether the two factors identified by Wanner namely industry structure and specialization remained significant and the extent to which cities have maintained their position in the urban system over the period 1950 to 1970 (ANNOTATION)
Converting Education into Income and Occupational Status
This article extends an earlier investigation of differences among European immigrant groups in the United States in the extent to which they convert educational attainment into income. The size of the sample has been significantly enlarged, making it possible to include more ethnic groups and to increase the number of factors taken into account. The present analysis examines the conversion of educational achievement into income and into occupati…
Manipulating population counts
The U.S. Metropolitan System
This article confronts three persistent problems in the analysis of the U.S. urban system by (a) employing a continuous, rather than a discrete, classification scheme that (b) has been replicated successfully for three time periods to (c) describe regional variations and changes in the U.S. metropolitan system from 1950 to 1970. Two fundamental dimensions describe the system in 1950, 1960, and 1970; an industry structure (manufacturing-service) c…
Sustenance Organization and Migration in Nonmetropolitan America
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