Familial Values in a Developing Society

A Decade of Change in Taiwan

Bibliographic Data

ID2554864
AuthorsLolagene C Coombs (University of Michigan, corresponding author), Te-Hsiung Sun (0009-0007-5211-8093)
Year1981
Volume59
Issue4
Pages1229
Publication date1981-06-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Forces (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-7732 • E-ISSN: 1534-7605
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2577991
OpenAlexW4248033448
LanguageEN
Citations received8

Changes in attitudes and values about the family during a decade of rapid economic development are examined for data from Taiwan, 1965–76. Attitudes toward family formation norms and preferences, toward personal control of the family building process, and toward traditional familial values are documented, assessed against modernizing social strata, and implications for fertility transition theory discussed. The pace of change has been marked, but uneven, with strong cultural preferences for sons and attitudes toward support from children in old age lagging behind other attitude changes. While modification of attitudes and values occurred in all social strata and all cohorts, aggregate shifts are not accounted for by concommitant changes in societal structure. Regression analysis decomposition indicates that compositional factors are relatively less important for changes in attitudes over the decade than are the rates at which these background factors are translated into changed attitudes

Demographic economics · Demographic transition · Economic growth · Economics · Family values · Fertility · Geography · Lagging · Pace · Political science · Population · Social change · Sociology · World Values Survey · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology

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