Interrelations between Certain Social Background and Paren-Son Factors in a Study of Courtship among College Men
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4955487 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert F Winch (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1946 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 333 |
| Publication date | 1946-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2087117 |
| OpenAlex | W2318679646 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
IN AN earlier paper' the writer endeavored to answer the following question: how do engaged and married college men differ with respect to certain attitudes towards their parents from the unmarried, non-engaged group in the same population? Data to answer this and other questions were obtained by the questionnaire method. In the questionnaire an effort was made to conceal the purpose of the inquiry and so to phrase the questions as to cause the subject to betray feelings of which he might be unconscious or which he might be unwilling to reveal. The sample was drawn in March, I94I, from sociology classes in sixteen midwestern co-educational colleges and universities having chapters of national fraternities and sororities. So-called street car colleges were avoided. Only native-born, white, non-Jewish respondents who were between nineteen and twenty-five inclusive and whose parents were still living together were included.2 To create what was in essence the dependent variable of the problem an effort was made to scale progress in courtship in terms of steps crudely corresponding to the just noticeable difference of the psychophysicist. These steps ran from no dating, occasional, and frequent to going steady, various types of understandings, and marriage.3 Given responses as of the moment of writing and for the preceding six month period, there were four indications which were treated as variables and designated as measures of degree of courtship behavior.4 To obtain evidence on the number of different girls dated and the number of dates the variables range and frequency of courtship behavior were included. In an effort to chart the parent-son relationships as seen from the son's viewpoint, the following elements were laid out
Biology · Courtship · Developmental psychology · Sociology · Zoology · Diverse Academic Research Analysis · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1950 - 2014 (65) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |