泰国四个村庄的微观人口差异与家庭构成

Microdemographic variation and family composition in four Thai villages.

作者信息

Foster B L

出版信息

Hum Ecol. 1982 Dec;10(4):439-54. doi: 10.1007/BF01531166.

Abstract

"Examination of Thai ethnographic materials highlights several problems in comparative analysis of social processes that are population linked. Marked differences in family composition among four Central Thai villages are shown to arise primarily from a common family system operating on different underlying sociocultural and demographic processes. Satisfactory analysis requires detailed demographic data, information on other sociocultural processes, and a formal model of family dynamics relating the demographic to the other kinds of data. Lack of even one of these three components may make comparison meaningless. Demographic anthropology and historical demography provide complementary data well suited to anthropological studies of social organization."

摘要

对泰国人种志资料的研究凸显了在对与人口相关的社会过程进行比较分析时的几个问题。泰国中部四个村庄的家庭构成存在显著差异，这些差异主要源于一个共同的家庭制度在不同的潜在社会文化和人口过程中发挥作用。令人满意的分析需要详细的人口数据、关于其他社会文化过程的信息，以及一个将人口数据与其他各类数据联系起来的家庭动态形式模型。这三个组成部分中哪怕缺少一个，都可能使比较变得毫无意义。人口人类学和历史人口学提供了相互补充的数据，非常适合用于社会组织的人类学研究。