Children's First Names
An Empirical Study of Social Taste
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2212434 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stanley Lieberson (Harvard University Press), Eleanor O Bell |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 98 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 511-554 |
| Publication date | 1992-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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 | 10.1086/230048 |
| OpenAlex | W2055585782 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 126 |
| References cited | 12 |
Data on births in New York State between 1973 and 1985 are used to analy gender differences in naming patterns. In a relatively rigorous way, the authors infer how seemingly idiosyncratic expressions of tastes in names are in general affected by underlying cultural themes. For example, the results suggest that long-standing stereotyped role assignments still have a subtle but major effect on the naming process. Two major parental characteristics-education and race-modify these general patterns. In turn, taste differences in subpopulations reveal their general esthetics dispositions. The authors present these results as the first large-scale systematic comparison of educational differences in naming patterns in the United States
Cartography · Cognitive psychology · Geography · Race (biology) · Scale (ratio) · Sociology · Taste · Gender Studies · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Psychology · Social Psychology · Soviet and Russian History
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| Unique citing works | 126 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,82 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2026 (34) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 117 |