essay

Modernization and household composition in Taiwan

Chinese family law and social changeSeattlePublished 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