Educational Assortative Mating in Japan: Insights Into Social Change and Stratification

ISBN-13: 9789811637124 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 114 str.

Fumiya Uchikoshi; James M. Raymo

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Conceptual Issues.- Chapter  3 How We Evaluate Assortative Mating.- Chapter 4 The Japanese Context.- Chapter 5 Empirical Analysis.- Chapter 6 Conclusion and Future Directions.

O autorze

Fumiya Uchikoshi is a Ph.D. student in Sociology at Princeton University. His research interests include family demography, social stratification, and East Asia. His current research examines diverging family behaviors and their impact on social inequality and the consequences of newly emerging behaviors on future life course outcomes in familistic societies.

 

James M. Raymo is a professor of Sociology and the Henry Wendt III ‘55 Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. Raymo is a social demographer whose research focuses on documenting and understanding the causes and potential consequences of demographic changes in Japan. His published research includes analyses of marriage timing, divorce, recession and fertility, marriage and women’s health, single mothers’ well-being, living alone, employment and health at older ages, and regional differences in health at older ages. His current research focuses on children’s well-being, changing patterns of family formation, single motherhood, and social isolation and health at older ages.