Gender Imbalance in Infant Mortality : A Cross National Study of Social Structure and Female Infanticide  

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Fuse, Kana ; Crenshaw, Edward M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 62 no. 2 (Jan. 2006), page 360-374.
Topik: SOCIAL STRUCTURE; infanticide; gender; status of women; infant mortality; cross national

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.1 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Sex differentials in infant mortality vary widely across nations. because newborn girs are biologically advantaged in surviving to their first birthday, sex differentials in infant mortality typically arise from genetic factors that results in higher male infant mortality rates. Nonetheless, there are cases where mortality differencials arise from social or behavioural factors reflecting deliberate discrimination by adults in favor of boys over firks, resulting in typical male to female infant mortality ratios. This cross national study of 93 developed and deveoping countries uses such macrosocial theories as modernization theory, gender perspectives, human ecology and socioboilogy / evolutionary psychology to predict gender differentials in infant mortality. We find stong evidence for modernization theory, human ecology, and the evolutionary psychology of group process, but mixed evidence for gender perspectives.

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