Social Status, Mobility and Premarital Pregnancy: A Case of Brazil  

Oleh:

Bock, E. Wilbur ; Iutaka, Sugiyama

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Marriage and the Family vol. 32 no. 02 (May 1970), page 284.

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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relative importance of variables surrounding premarital pregnancy. The data were based on responses obtained from 1,520 women in Rio de Janeiro in 1963. The factors found to be related significantly to premarital pregnancy were educational attainment, social status of father, social status of husband, and social mobility. Although age appeared to be operating in the predicted direction, the statistical tests failed to be significant. Measures of religion were not found to be significant. The most prominent feature of the present study was the significance of social class background and social mobility. The data suggest that premarital pregnancy has significance for social mobility through the process of mate selection. Premarital conception may result in middle-class females being downwardly mobile to find mates. Future research can determine whether social mobility of females occurs before or after premarital conception. More cross-cultural comparisons on the dynamics of courtship are needed to ascertain the full significance of premarital pregnancy

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