Structural stability, quantitative change: A latent class analysis approach towards gender role attitudes in Germany.

Since the 1960s, social science surveys have aimed to assess respondents' attitudes towards gender roles. In this paper, a model-based clustering approach towards gender role attitudes is proposed in contrast to commonly used dimensional methods. Working from a role theory perspective, we expect dif...

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Publicado en:Social Science Research Vol. 72; pp. 183 - 194
Autores principales: Barth, Alice, Trübner, Miriam
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Academic Press Inc. May2018
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          Barth, Alice
          Trübner, Miriam
        affil: University of Bonn, Institute of Political Science and Sociology, Department of Sociology, Lennéstr. 27, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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        Gender role
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        Attitude change
        Family roles
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