Social Class and Preferred Family Size in Peru
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2206345 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Mayone Stycos (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1965 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 651-658 |
| Publication date | 1965-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/223959 |
| PMID | 14298071 |
| OpenAlex | W1982266736 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
Data from a survey of currently mated women in Lima, Peru, and a highland Peruvian town indicate a positive relation between social class and number of children desired but a negative relation between class and previous thought or discussions of family size. Lower-class preferences for small families may fail to be activated because of various misperceptions of fertility and mortality. In particular, the lower classes tend to overestimate average fertility and average ideal family size and to view fertility and mortality as unchanging or increasing
Class (philosophy) · Economics · Fertility · Geography · Ideal (ethics) · Political science · Population · Social class · Sociology · Demography · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1966 - 1980 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |