Social Class Variations in Gender-Specific Juvenile Mortality in Rural India

印度农村地区不同性别青少年死亡率的社会阶层差异

• 批准号: 8616762
• 负责人: Barbara Miller
• 金额: $ 6.24万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1987
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1987-09-01 至 1989-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8616762&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Social; Class; Variations; Gender; Specific

This award will allow the PI to analyze secondary data pertaining to the sex ratio (girls versus boys) in the Northern plains region of India. There is a scarcity of girls relative to boys in this region, while proportions of the sexes in southern and eastern India are more nearly equal. The PI has published statistical analyses of comparable data but recent research by other scholars, at the national as well as the local level in India, has shed additional light on patterns and causes of the son preference/daughter disfavor complex. The most compelling issue pertains to class differences. The PI has argued that in rural North India propertied groups discriminate more heavily against daughters than unpropertied groups. Others argue that daughter disfavor is the result of poverty and thus is more prominent in lower social strata. The research will explore class patterns and their determinants through analysis of recent census data and information in ethnographic sources. This research is important because the causes of parental preferences for girls or boys in peasant societies have significant potential effect on world population patterns.

该奖项将使 PI 能够分析有关印度北部平原地区性别比例（女孩与男孩）的二手数据。 该地区女孩相对男孩较少，而印度南部和东部的性别比例几乎相等。 PI 发布了可比较数据的统计分析，但印度国家和地方层面其他学者最近的研究进一步揭示了重男轻女情结的模式和原因。 最引人注目的问题涉及阶级差异。 PI 认为，在印度北部农村，有产群体对女儿的歧视比无产群体更严重。 另一些人则认为，女儿不受宠是贫困的结果，因此在社会底层更为突出。 该研究将通过分析最近的人口普查数据和人种学来源的信息来探索阶级模式及其决定因素。 这项研究很重要，因为农民社会中父母偏爱女孩或男孩的原因对世界人口模式具有重大的潜在影响。