Social Norms and Expectations about Student Loans and Family Formation*

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arielle Kuperberg ◽  
Joan Maya Mazelis
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Student Loans ◽  
Family Formation

scholarly journals Parents, Partners, Plans, and Promises: The Relational Work of Student Loan Borrowing

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 237802312091500
Author(s):  
Abby Stivers ◽  
Elizabeth Popp Berman
Keyword(s):  
Student Loans ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Quantitative Estimation ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Student Loan ◽  
Relational Work ◽  
Group Variation ◽  
Economic Expectations ◽  
The Impact

When does student loan borrowing prompt relational work between borrowers and family members? Research on student loans has focused on quantitative estimation of the effects of borrowing on educational attainment, economic well-being, health, and life-course milestones. Drawing on 60 interviews with lawyers in the northeastern United States, the authors argue that student loans also have underappreciated relational effects, even for relatively privileged borrowers. Relational work around student loans is particularly visible during the decision to borrow, when establishing partnerships, and in transitioning to parenthood. It becomes prominent when there is a mismatch between family members’ economic expectations of one another and when shared expectations are difficult to fulfill. Scholars have implicitly assumed that difficulty repaying explains the impact of borrowing on family formation. Attention to relational work, however, shows how debt can create stressors even for borrowers capable of repayment and may help explain cross-group variation in how debt affects family decisions.

scholarly journals PERCEPTION OF THE WIFE IN RUSSIAN AND UKRAINIAN CULTURE (BASED ON PAROEMIAE)

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 151-164
Author(s):  
Zhanna V. Marfina ◽  
◽  
Oksana V. Shkuran ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Slavic Language ◽  
Historical Information ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Cultural Images

The paper examines the Russian and Ukrainian paroemiae collected and systematized in ethnographic and lexicographic sources of different periods which include one of the main nominations of kinship “wife”. Interest in this component of paroemiae is determined by its linguocultural stereotypification: the wife is perceived, first of all, as a guardian of the hearth, the attitude to whom changed due to cultural, social, geopolitical conditions of family formation. The relevance of the research stems from the need of representing the national stereotype and identification of a new range of fixed modern cultural images of the “wife” component in the East Slavic language space. Behavioral stereotypes, mythological representations, social norms, phraseological collocations, symbols, rules of speech reproduction, folklore texts themselves accumulate in the collective memory the most important experience of an ethnic group — from a homekeeper to a modern socially active charismatic personality capable of performing complex ideological tasks. Results obtained afforded grounds for concluding that the nomination “wife” stores sacral cultural and historical information as a part of paroemiae of the Russian and Ukrainian languages, is illustrative of the national stereotype and reveals a new range of the fixed modern cultural images in the modern language space.

scholarly journals Student Loans, College Attendance and Completion, and Family Formation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arielle Kuperberg ◽  
Joan Maya Mazelis
Keyword(s):  
Student Loans ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
College Attendance ◽  
Age At First Birth ◽  
Selection Effects ◽  
First Birth ◽  
Marriage Rates ◽  
Age At Marriage ◽  
Birth Data ◽  
The Life Course

Student loans are increasingly common among young adults, but implications for family formation patterns and childbearing circumstances have not been fully explored. We analyze the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 Cohort dataset to examine the relationships of student loans and college attendance and completion to family formation patterns, specifically marriage, parenthood, age at marriage, and age and marital status at first birth. Data examined were collected between 1997 and 2015, and we examine respondents ranging in age from 17-35 during those years, allowing for the consideration of effects across the life course. We find women who had children at early ages were more likely to take out loans to attend college, but at older ages loans were associated with lower parenthood rates among women. Women with loans had marginally lower marriage rates at older ages, were significantly younger on average when they did have children, and were significantly less likely to be married at first birth, even after accounting for differences in age at first birth and selection effects. Loans were not associated with differences in these trends among men, but education was related to distinct family formation trajectories for both men and women.

scholarly journals The Persistence of Social Norms, Family Formation, and Gender Balance in Politics

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Moa Frödin Gruneau
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Gender Composition ◽  
Swedish Population ◽  
Gender Balance ◽  
The Past ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Using Data

Abstract Throughout history, most positions of political power have been held by men, and despite numerous laws and regulations aimed at increasing gender equality in society and politics, the majority of democratic assemblies remain predominantly composed of men. What makes this gender composition persistent over time? Using data from Swedish population registers from 1982 to 2014 and demographic statistics from 1749 to 1859, I study how historical social norms shape the present-day gender balance in local politics. The results show that where family formation was more traditional in the past, there are fewer women in local politics today. The analysis also shows that family formation is a likely mechanism for the transmission of social norms across generations. The findings contribute to our understanding of the historical persistence of social structures and the reasons why gender balance in politics is not easily achieved.

Cooperation and obligation in early parent-child relationships

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross A. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Moral Psychology ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Social Agency ◽  
Infant Survival ◽  
Peer Experiences ◽  
Early Experiences ◽  
Early Parent ◽  
Collaborative Skills ◽  
Parent Child Relationships

Abstract Tomasello's moral psychology of obligation would be developmentally deepened by greater attention to early experiences of cooperation and shared social agency between parents and infants, evolved to promote infant survival. They provide a foundation for developing understanding of the mutual obligations of close relationships that contribute (alongside peer experiences) to growing collaborative skills, fairness expectations, and fidelity to social norms.

Federal Graduate Student Loans to Cost More

ASHA Leader ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. 19-19
Author(s):  
Neil Snyder
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Student ◽  
Student Loans

The Structure Among Measures of Personality, Social Attitudes, Values, and Social Norms

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 240-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lazar Stankov
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Correlation Matrix ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Factor Scores ◽  
Ethnic Group Differences ◽  
Inside Out

Abstract. This paper presents the results of a study that employed measures of personality, social attitudes, values, and social norms that have been the focus of recent research in individual differences. These measures were given to a sample of participants (N = 1,255) who were enrolled at 25 US colleges and universities. Factor analysis of the correlation matrix produced four factors. Three of these factors corresponded to the domains of Personality/Amoral Social Attitudes, Values, and Social Norms; one factor, Conservatism, cut across the domains. Cognitive ability showed negative correlation with conservatism and amoral social attitudes. The study also examined gender and ethnic group differences on factor scores. The overall interpretation of the findings is consistent with the inside-out view of human social interactions.

Accentuating Your Masculine Side

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chongzeng Bi ◽  
Oscar Ybarra ◽  
Yufang Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Gender Role ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Agency And Communion

Recent research investigating self-judgment has shown that people are more likely to base their evaluations of self on agency-related traits than communion-related traits. In the present research, we tested the hypothesis that agency-related traits dominate self-evaluation by expanding the purview of the fundamental dimensions to consider characteristics typically studied in the gender-role literature, but that nevertheless should be related to agency and communion. Further, we carried out these tests on two samples from China, a cultural context that, relative to many Western countries, emphasizes the interpersonal or communion dimension. Despite the differences in traits used and cultural samples studied, the findings generally supported the agency dominates self-esteem perspective, albeit with some additional findings in Study 2. The findings are discussed with regard to the influence of social norms and the types of inferences people are able to draw about themselves given such norms.

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