Exogamy and Change in the Biosocial Structure of a Modern Urban Population
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2455893 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donna L Leonetti (0000-0003-1768-7649, University of Washington), Laura Newell‐morri, Laura Newell‐Morris (University of Washington) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 19-36 |
| Publication date | 1982-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/aa.1982.84.1.02a00030 |
| OpenAlex | W2123731126 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 41 |
Change is traced in the biosocial structure of the Japanese American population of Seattle-King County, Washington, from that of a deme to a state approaching panmixis with surrounding American populations. Data from 2,767 marriage license applications of Japanese Americans between 1930 and 1975 were used to calculate rates of racial exogamy. Rates rose from prewar levels of less than 1% to over 50% in 1975. The total Japanese American county population was subdivided into a nuclear group, tracing its origins back to the original founding immigrants, and a nonnuclear group which has migrated into the area since World War II. Until 1965, the nonnuclear group consistently led the nuclear group in exogamous marriages. In both groups, females consistently out-married more frequently than did the males. Further analysis of community exogamy, i.e., nuclear member marriage to a nonnuclear Japanese American, showed that this type of exogamy within the second generation preceded the high rates of racial exogamy characterizing the marriage patterns of the third generation. Familial analysis suggested that the maternal kin ties of nuclear population females continue to influence marriage choice of their offspring. The patterns of increasing racial exogamy for Japanese Americans are examined against their rise in socioeconomic status, [biosocial structure, exogamy, population
Biosocial theory · Exogamy · Geography · Population · Sociology · Anthropology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Inter-ethnic Mixture among the Communities of Israel
Interracial Marriage in Hawaii
Record Linkage in Medicine
The demographic evolution of human populations
Research on International and Interracial Marriages
Interracial Marriage in California
Residential Propinquity and Marital Selection
Human populations, genetic variation, and evolution
Socio-economic differentials among nonwhite races in the state of washington
The japanese americans
Demographic correlates of interracial marriage in Hawaii
Interracial Marriage
Intermarriage and Ethnic Boundaries
Note on Educational Homogamy in Negro-White and White-Negro Marriages, 1960
Ethnicity in theory and practice
Population studies in the Connecticut valley
Japanese Americans
Social Trends in Seattle
The Occupational Class of Couples Entering into Interracial Marriages
Two Processes of Change in Japanese-American Kinship
The Prevalence of Black-White Marriage in the United States, 1960 and 1970
Negro-White Marriage in the United States
Interethnic Marriage in Los Angeles, 1948-1959
Modernization, Population Dispersion, and Papago Genetic Integrity
Women-Centered Kin Networks in Urban Bilateral Kinship
Intermarriage in Caste Societies1
Mate Selection, Marital Adjustment, and Symbolic Environment
Measures of Nez Perce Outbreeding and the Analysis of Cultural Change
Group Formation and the Cultural Division of Labor
On Reporting Rates of Intermarriage
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 1998 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |