The Importance of Social Context in the Formation of the Value of Children for Adolescents: Social Class and Rural Urban Differences in Taiwan.
This paper examines how adolescents' values may be shaped by the immediate social context with special reference to social class and rural urban background. The locus of study is Taiwan, a society with drastically declining birth rates in recent years. It is hypothesized that the value adolescents...
| Published in: | Journal of Comparative Family Studies Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 371 - 393 |
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Journal of Comparative Family Studies
Summer 2008
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