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household composition and economic change in a rural community, 1900–1980: testing two models
Author(s) -
ARCURY THOMAS A.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1984.11.4.02a00040
Subject(s) - diversification (marketing strategy) , explanatory power , composition (language) , rural community , economics , economic geography , sociology , demographic economics , geography , economic growth , business , philosophy , linguistics , epistemology , marketing
Historical changes in the composition of households in Western society have largely been analyzed without reference to social theory. Two empirically‐based theoretical models of changing household composition have recently been presented; the first predicts change as a result of class conflict in the development of a capitalist economy, and the other predicts change as the result of adaptation to changes in a community's level of economic diversification. Using data from a rural U.S. community, both models are tested to evaluate their relative explanatory power . [household structure, social change, social organization, cultural ecology, rural United States]