The central objective of Men in a Developing Society is to show, as concretely as possible, how men experience a period of rapid economic development, particularly in the areas of migration, occupational mobility, and status attainment. It is based mainly on a sample of 1,640 men in Monterrey, Mexico, a large and rapidly growing manufacturing metropolis in northern Mexico with much in-migration, and a sample of 380 men in Cedral, San Luis Potosi, a small, economically depressed community with high rates of out-migration, much of it to Monterrey.
The study of men in...
The central objective of Men in a Developing Society is to show, as concretely as possible, how men experience a period of rapid econo...