Umeå University.
Lund University.
Popul Stud (Camb). 2023 Nov;77(3):417-435. doi: 10.1080/00324728.2022.2149844. Epub 2023 Jan 5.
An established negative association between socio-economic status (SES) and divorce has applied to most Western nations since 1960. We expected a positive association between SES and divorce for low-divorce contexts historically because only individuals in higher social strata had the resources to overcome barriers to divorce. According to Goode's socio-economic growth theory, this relationship was reversed as industrialization and modernization began removing the economic and normative barriers. Making use of longitudinal data from parish registers, we investigated SES and other micro-level determinants of divorce among men and women in northern Sweden who married between 1880 and 1954. Results indicated a positive association between SES and divorce among those who married 1880-1919, with the middle class, not the elite, featuring the highest divorce risks. This association changed for couples who married in the 1920s, for whom divorce became more common and the working class faced similar divorce risks to the higher social strata.
自 20 世纪 60 年代以来，社会经济地位（SES）与离婚之间的负相关关系在大多数西方国家都得到了证实。我们曾预计，在历史上离婚率较低的情况下，SES 与离婚之间会呈正相关，因为只有较高社会阶层的个人才有资源克服离婚的障碍。根据古德的社会经济增长理论，随着工业化和现代化开始消除经济和规范障碍，这种关系发生了逆转。我们利用来自教区登记处的纵向数据，研究了在 1880 年至 1954 年间在瑞典北部结婚的男性和女性的 SES 以及其他微观层面的离婚决定因素。结果表明，在 1880 年至 1919 年期间结婚的人群中，SES 与离婚呈正相关，中产阶级而不是精英阶层的离婚风险最高。对于 20 世纪 20 年代结婚的夫妇来说，这种关联发生了变化，因为他们的离婚变得更加普遍，工人阶级面临的离婚风险与较高的社会阶层相当。
