One or two pathways to individual modernity? The effects of education on family formation among women in Japan and Germany.

Autor/inn/en	Nauck, Bernhard; Tabuchi, Rokuro
Titel	One or two pathways to individual modernity? The effects of education on family formation among women in Japan and Germany. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Ein oder zwei Pfade zu individueller Modernität? Die Effekte der Bildung auf Familiengründung bei Frauen in Japan und Deutschland.
Quelle	Aus: James, K.S. (Hrsg.); Skirbekk, Vegard (Hrsg.); Van Bavel, Jan (Hrsg.): Vienna yearbook of population research 2012. Special issue on "Education and the Global fertility Transition". Wien: Verl. d. Österreich. Akad. d. Wiss. (2012) S. 49-76 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Vienna yearbook of population research. 10.2012
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag
ISBN	978-3-7001-7373-1
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Bildungsniveau; Familie; Familiengründung; Frau; Übergang; Demografie; Asien; Deutschland; Japan; Ostasien
Abstract	"Two prominent theses on social change concur with regard to the on-going development of family systems in the process of general social change: the model of the 'second demographic transition', suggested by the demographers van de Kaa and Lesthaeghe; and the model of 'family change', proposed by the crosscultural psychologist Kagitçibasi. This paper presents an empirical test based on an analysis of family change in Japan, a collectivistic, yet modernised society; and in Germany, a society characterised by 'Western' individualism. Our empirical test is based on 12 cumulated, representative surveys from these two societies, which together cover the family formation processes of 49,983 women born between 1915 and 1985. For both Germany and Japan, we examine the influence of educational inequality on family formation, and explore how it has changed over a period of 60 years, by means of multivariate Cox regression analyses. The two models emphasise different aspects of the change in the family formation process: although the changes point in the direction predicted by the second demographic transition model, the differences between the two societies have remained stable or have even widened, in line with the family change model." (author's abstract).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2014/3