The purdah system limits a woman's mobility outside her home. In the present paper, special emphasis is placed on the influence of purdah observance and values on women's participation in modern occupations. Medicine and teaching are found to be the most important high prestige occupations. (Author)

Normative housing deficits are introduced into an analysis of the propensity to move as intervening variables between socioeconomic and demographic characteristics and satisfaction. The findings support the use of residential satisfaction and normative housing deficits as predictors of the propensity to move. (Author)

Used longitudinal data to assess effects of marriage, divorce, and widowhood on immediate relocation and on subsequent mobility patterns. Results demonstrated substantial impact of changes in marital status on mobility. Mobility rates were highest among newly married, almost as high in years of separation or divorce, and very low in first year of…

This rather extensive review examines the family structure in regard to general concerns resulting from industrialization, kin ties with particular emphasis on American kinship, mobility and ethnicity. Areas for future kinship exploration include: (1) dependent parents; (2) financially dependent young marrieds; (3) social class factors; (4)…

Overall, daughters leave home when about two years younger than sons, and a higher proportion of daughters leave home for marriage than for other reasons. For each sex, the average age at leaving home is youngest when the reason for leaving is education or a job, and oldest when the reason is marriage. (Author)

The hypothesis that education affects attitudes toward family size, not directly but through the crucial intervening variables of attitude toward type of conjugal family and attitude toward type of marital relationship, is supported by the data. (Author)

The contingency hypothesis suggests that spouses who marry down the social class scale while striving to move up will be relatively unhappy with their luck in the marriage market. This hypothesis is examined in this article. (Author)