Marriage and Family in East Asia: Continuity and Change
Dados Bibliográficos
| AUTOR(ES) | |
|---|---|
| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104;, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, National University, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706; |
| ANO | 2015 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | Annual Review of Sociology |
| ISSN | 0360-0572 |
| E-ISSN | 1545-2115 |
| EDITORA | Publisher 15279 |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-soc-073014-112428 |
| CITAÇÕES | 122 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
| MD5 |
e447074fb5265c3bfa95318512729ba4
|
Resumo
Trends toward later and less marriage and childbearing have been even more pronounced in East Asia than in the West. At the same time, many other features of East Asian families have changed very little. We review recent research on trends in a wide range of family behaviors in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. We also draw upon a range of theoretical frameworks to argue that trends in marriage and fertility reflect tension between rapid social and economic changes and limited change in family expectations and obligations. We discuss how this tension may be contributing to growing socioeconomic differences in patterns of family formation. This focus on East Asia extends research on the second demographic transition in the West by describing how rapid decline in marriage and fertility rates can occur in the absence of major changes in family attitudes or rising individualism.