Thesis (doctoral)--Göteborg University, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-188).

No description available.

This thesis is the result of ethnographic research conducted in a sending community in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico. This study calls into question the stereotypical view of Mexican women as passive and traditional. There are several conclusions reached during this study. First, the results reject Menjivar's (1999) and Levitt's (1998) argument. In the community studies, an unfulfilled economic or emotional absence encourages women to challenge the system of practice of Nurangi (participation in the labor force) even in the absence of a migration experience. Second, the analysis shows that contrary to our hypothesis, the physical absence of the male is not a trigger mechanism for women's participation in the labor force. Third, women from both migrant and non-migrant related groups have increased their human capital. However, migrant and non-migrant related women who participated in market activities not only expanded their human capital but also gained an economic and emotional benefit. Finally, the interviews have also shown that contrary to some literature that views Mexican women as passive and subordinate agents, the women in the Nurangi community are active agents, and what is sometimes perceived as a static gender division of labor is rather a fluid.

Inaug.-diss.--Jena. / Lebenslauf.

Inaug.-diss. - Bonn. / Lebenslauf.

No description available.

This study examines the relationship between premarital cohabitation and egalitarianism in marriage using data from the two waves of the National Survey of Families and Households (N = 13,017). Multiple regression and path analysis techniques are used to test this effect. Cohabitation is viewed as an experience in which patterns of behavior and attitudes are formed that influence later marriages. It is hypothesized that this experience leads to a more egalitarian household division of labor and less traditional gender ideologies among married individuals who cohabited premaritally, as compared to those that did not. Path models test the extent to which cohabitation’s effect on later marriages is explained by the household division of labor and gender ideology at time-1. Based on attitude-behavior research, 1) a higher correlation between household division of labor and gender ideology is expected for premarital cohabitors than for non-cohabitors; and 2) a measure of attitude toward sharing housework should better predict household division of labor than does general gender ideology. The analysis showed that premarital cohabitation does have a positive effect on household division of labor and gender ideology in marriage through indirect (and possibly direct) paths. The attitudinal and behavioral measures were not more closely linked for cohabitors, and the specific attitude-toward-thebehavior measure was not a better predictor of household division of labor than general gender ideology. I conclude from this analysis that the experience of cohabitation leads to more egalitarian marriages and that this is largely due to household labor during cohabitation. / Master of Science

Leong Lai Ting Joyce. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 47-56). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / List of Figures --- p.v / List of Tables --- p.vi / Chapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction to the Study --- p.1 / Introduction --- p.1 / Interpersonal - Spousal Influence Behaviors --- p.4 / Defining the context --- p.4 / Developing the tactics of influence --- p.4 / Putting the influence tactics into context --- p.6 / Intrapersonal - The Appraisal Of Partners' Influence Attempts --- p.7 / The perspective of reciprocity --- p.7 / Setting hypotheses on the pattern of spousal interactions --- p.8 / The construct of justice appraisal --- p.12 / Predicting justice appraisal in spousal interactions --- p.14 / The Outcomes of Spousal Influence --- p.15 / Chapter Chapter 2: --- Method --- p.18 / Sample and procedures --- p.18 / Instruments --- p.19 / Distributive justice --- p.19 / Influence behaviors --- p.19 / Communicative justice --- p.20 / Marital satisfaction --- p.20 / Chapter Chapter 3: --- Results --- p.22 / The Influence Behaviors --- p.22 / Assessing the structure of the influence tactics --- p.22 / Testing HI: Gender difference in the usage of influence tactics --- p.22 / The Typology of Couples --- p.25 / Generating the typology --- p.25 / Profiling the typology --- p.28 / Applying the typology to assess marital satisfaction --- p.29 / The Justice Model --- p.30 / Assessing the dimensionality of the justice construct --- p.30 / Revising the proposed model --- p.33 / Testing H5-H8: Effects of justice appraisal on marital satisfaction --- p.33 / Chapter Chapter 4: --- Discussion --- p.39 / Interpersonal - Spousal Influence Behaviors --- p.39 / Importance of studying spousal interactions --- p.39 / Gender difference in dyadic influencing --- p.40 / Intrapersonal - Justice Appraisal --- p.41 / The construct of justice in spousal infulences --- p.41 / "Influence behaviors, justice, and marital satisfaction" --- p.43 / The Strategies of Influence --- p.45 / References --- p.47 / Appendix --- p.57

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1984 C355 / Master of Science

O objetivo principal desta dissertação consiste no conhecimento das desigualdades socioespaciais de São Bernardo do Campo desencadeadas pelo processo de divisão internacional e territorial do trabalho. As desigualdades sociais e territoriais visíveis na paisagem desse município localizado na Região Metropolitana de São Paulo constituíram a razão motivadora para investigar como ocorreu o processo de especialização geográfica das atividades ligadas à presença de indústrias automobilísticas e quais benefícios essa divisão territorial do trabalho trouxe a maioria da população. O método pelo qual a realidade foi reconstituída teve como base o espaço geográfico, isto é, uma indissociabilidade contraditória entre sistemas de objetos e sistemas de ações. A partir disso, formou-se um sistema de conceitos concebido pelas categorias de análise, como: divisão do trabalho, território usado, técnicas, normas e as relações entre o mundo e os lugares, juntamente com os novos recortes territoriais baseados nas verticalidades e horizontalidades a fim de analisar como os eventos presentes no mundo se relacionam com os lugares. Nesse sentido, o processo de divisão internacional do trabalho, conhecido como a repartição dos recursos no planeta, serviu de ferramenta analítica para reconhecer como as intencionalidades de empresas de origem global atuam na formação da divisão territorial do trabalho ligadas a lógicas privadas. A instalação de empresas como: Volkswagen, Toyota, Scania, dentre outras em São Bernardo do Campo, representaram o mundo diretamente em pontos do território brasileiro. Desse modo, foi possível revelar usos desiguais do território pelas empresas, sobretudo multinacionais do setor automobilístico, em relação ao conjunto da população. Tal processo figurou como a raiz das desigualdades socioespaciais, em que a fragmentação e a seletividade territorial atenderam e continuam a oferecer privilégios a empresas e instituições. Com a análise dos tipos de uso do território pela divisão internacional e territorial do trabalho em São Bernardo do Campo foi possível visualizar um novo meio geográfico em pleno processo de transformação. A competitividade entre empresas, a desvalorização do trabalho, com subutilização da mão de obra, além de novas formas de produção, justificaria um novo campo de estudos da Geografia intitulado: geografia do trabalho. Entretanto, para confrontar esse novo campo de estudos foi proposto a investigação da realidade através da expressão territorial do trabalho. O uso do território, portanto, pelo mundo do trabalho consistiu no recurso de método dessa pesquisa em contraposição a geografias particulares. / The main objective of this dissertation is the knowledge of socio-spatial inequalities in São Bernardo do Campo triggered by the process of territorial and international division of labor. The social and territorial inequalities visible in the landscape of this town in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo were the motivating reason to investigate how the process of geographical specialization of activities occurred linked to the presence of automobile and what benefits this territorial division of labor brought most of population. The method by which reality was reconstituted was based on the geographical space centered in their systems of objects and actions. From there, formed a system of concepts designed by categories of analysis, such as division of labor, used territory, techniques, regulations and relations between the world and the places along with new territorial clippings based on horizontal and vertical organization of regional spaces in order to analyze how these events relate to the world everywhere. In this sense, the process of international division of labor, known as the allocation of resources on the planet, served as the analytical tool to recognize as the original intentions of global companies operating in the formation of the territorial division of labor linked to logical private. Installation of companies such as Volkswagen, Toyota, Scania, and others in São Bernardo do Campo, represented the world directly in points of Brazil. Thus, it was possible to reveal uneven uses of the territory by companies, especially multinationals in the automotive sector, in relation to the majority population. This process figured as the root of socio-spatial inequalities in the territorial fragmentation and selectivity met and continue to offer privileges to companies and institutions. With the analysis of the types of uses of the territory by the international division of labor in Sao Bernardo do Campo was possible to visualize a new geographical environment in the process of transformation. The competitiveness between enterprises, the devaluation of labor, with underutilization of labor, and new forms of production, would justify a new field of study Geography titled: geography of labor. However, the result came together to confront the theoretical use of the territory represented by the world of work as opposed to particular geographies.