Differential Age at Marriage According to Social Class

Bibliographic Data

ID2198003
AuthorsFrank W Notestein (corresponding author)
Year1931
Volume37
Issue1
Pages22-48
Publication date1931-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/215617
OpenAlexW2021011018
LanguageEN
Citations received7

This study is based on records obtained from the 1910 census schedules concernig age, duration of marriage, and occupation of husband, for urban and rural women of native white parentage. The women are grouped into six urban and three rural classes on the basis of the husband's occupation. Because of certain limitations of the data the study is confined to the 17,876 women who married between 1900 and 1905. Analysis of the age at marriage distributions for these women leads to the following conclusions: (1) the women of the urban population married later than those of the rural, but the women of the three "lowest" urban classes married earlier than those of the "highest" rural class; (2) for both the urban and the rural classes age at marriage increses with "rising" social status, and the increase is largest between the classes differing most in social status; ( the age at marriage for certain classes is lower than that of the most nearly comparable English classes; (4) the direct relation of age at marriage and social status accounts in part for the inverse relation between the fertility and social status of the classes

Census · Fertility · Geography · Marital status · Political science · Population · Rural area · Social class · Social science · Social status · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Demography · Korean Urban and Social Studies · Medicine · Rural development and sustainability