essay
Modernization and household composition in Taiwan
Chinese family law and social change • Seattle • Published In 1978 • Pages: 283-320
By: Parish, William L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This essay examines the effects of urbanization on household composition. Parish compares household composition in rural and urban areas in relation to migration, inheritance of the means of livelihood, occupational mobility and status differences, and bureaucratization. He concludes that household composition does change with urbanization in a number of ways.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Tests and schedules administered in the field
- Internal migration
- Urban and rural life
- Labor supply and employment
- Status, role, and prestige
- Household
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Taiwan Hokkien
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Sociologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Marlene Martin; David Sherwood
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1966-1967
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- 'Bao-an' village and Tainan and Kaohsiung cities, Taiwan
- NotesAdditional notes
- William L. Parish
- The bibliography for this essay will be found in source 56: Buxbaum, this file, Category 113, pp. 503-527
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 76007781
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese