Department of Social Research Methodology, VU University Amsterdam, HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Demography. 2010 Nov;47(4):1013-34. doi: 10.1007/BF03213737.
This article examines pathways to adulthood among Dutch cohorts born in the second half of the nineteenth century. Although largely overlooked by previous studies, theory suggests that life courses of young adults born during this period were already influenced by a process of standardization, in the sense that their life courses became more similar over time. Using data from a Dutch registry-based sample, we examine household trajectories: that is, sequences of living arrangements of young adults aged 15-40. Our study shows that for successive cohorts, household trajectories became more similar. We identified six types of trajectories: early death, life-cycle service, early family formation, late family formation, singlehood, and childless but with partner. Overtime, early family formation gradually became the "standard" trajectory to adulthood. However, late family formation and singlehood, common pathways within the preindustrial western European marriage pattern, remained widespread among cohorts born in the late nineteenth century. Laboring class youths, farmers' daughters, young people of mixed religious background, and urban-born youngsters were the nineteenth century forerunners of a standard pathway to adulthood.
本文考察了出生于 19 世纪下半叶的荷兰队列的成年途径。尽管先前的研究大多忽略了这一点，但理论表明，这一时期出生的年轻成年人的生活轨迹已经受到标准化进程的影响，因为他们的生活轨迹随着时间的推移变得更加相似。我们使用来自荷兰基于登记的样本的数据，研究了家庭轨迹：即年轻成年人（15-40 岁）的居住安排序列。我们的研究表明，对于连续的队列，家庭轨迹变得更加相似。我们确定了六种类型的轨迹：早逝、生命周期服务、早婚、晚婚、单身和无子女但有伴侣。随着时间的推移，早婚逐渐成为成年的“标准”途径。然而，晚婚和单身，这是前工业化时期西欧婚姻模式中的常见途径，在 19 世纪出生的队列中仍然很普遍。劳动阶级青年、农民的女儿、宗教背景混合的年轻人和城市出生的年轻人是标准成年途径的 19 世纪先驱。
