Educational Assortative Mating in Japan

Insights into Social Change and Stratification

Fumiya Uchikoshi, James M. Raymo (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

124 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-16-3712-4 (ISBN)

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This book represents a first attempt to comprehensively discuss and investigate causes and potential implications of changing patterns of spouse pairing in Japan and to consider similarities and differences with patterns observed in the USA and other low-fertility Western societies. In this book, research on educational assortative mating in Japan is summarized and updated. This book contributes to research on the demography of contemporary Japan by overviewing theoretical and empirical linkages between marriage behavior and processes of social and economic stratification. It also extends the large body of research on assortative mating and stratification by incorporating insights from the understudied context of Japan. The authors draw upon multiple data sources – both survey and administrative data – to update and extend previous research on “who marries whom” in Japan. The wide range of consequences considered includes income inequality, the intergenerational transmission of advantage and disadvantage, marriage and fertility timing, lifelong singlehood, childlessness, and the family roles of husbands and wives. Throughout the manuscript, Japan is considered in comparative perspective by employing the large USA and international literatures on assortative mating.

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.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	13.09.2021
Reihe/Serie	Population Studies of Japan
Reihe/Serie	SpringerBriefs in Population Studies
Zusatzinfo	6 Illustrations, color; 3 Illustrations, black and white; XIX, 124 p. 9 illus., 6 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
Schlagworte	Assortative Mating • Education • Family demography • Japan • marriage
ISBN-10	981-16-3712-1 / 9811637121
ISBN-13	978-981-16-3712-4 / 9789811637124
Zustand	Neuware