Ruggles Steven
Minnesota Population Center and Department of History, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 55455.
Annu Rev Sociol. 2012 Aug;38:423-441. doi: 10.1146/annurev-soc-071811-145533.
An explosion of new data sources describing historical family composition is opening unprecedented opportunities for discovery and analysis. The new data will allow comparative multilevel analysis of spatial patterns and will support studies of the transformation of living arrangements over the past 200 years. Using measurement methods that assess family choices at the individual level and analytic strategies that assess variations across space and time, we can dissect the decline of patriarchal family forms in the developed world, and place Northwestern Europe and North America in global comparative context.
大量描述历史家庭构成的新数据源正带来前所未有的发现和分析机遇。这些新数据将使对空间模式进行比较多层次分析成为可能，并且有助于研究过去200年间居住安排的转变。运用在个体层面评估家庭选择的测量方法以及评估时空差异的分析策略，我们能够剖析发达国家父权制家庭形式的衰落，并将西北欧和北美置于全球比较的背景之中。
