John Scanzoni’s research while affiliated with University of Florida and other places

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Publications (35)


From the Normal Family to Alternate Families to the Quest for Diversity With Interdependence
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September 2001

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Journal of Family Issues

JOHN SCANZONI

This article traces the development of changes internal to households since the late 1960s. The discussion is set in the context of two competing theories—constructionism and functionalism, old and new. The notion of varieties of families is distinguished from household diversity. Variety refers simply to what are known as family variants or alternative lifestyles. Diversity is indicated by a structural and spatial situation in which there is both parity of and linkages among households.




Reconnecting Household and Community An Alternative Strategy for Theory and Policy

March 2001

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Journal of Family Issues

The aim of this article is to sketch the outlines of a social and spatial arrangement linking the household with its neighborhood. The fundamental theoretical and policy issue considered here is the sufficiency of the model of household isolation that has prevailed in the United States since the post-World War II era. Contrary to Talcott Parsons, who viewed that model as the end point of family evolution, critics at the time perceived it as having serious structural flaws. They argued for the reinvention of a meso layer of society linking the household more closely with its neighborhood. This article elaborates that theme by suggesting four spheres in which households might form pacts or alliances. These include gender, children/youth, mature persons, and economic disadvantage. To be fully implemented, the last issue in particular requires a partnership of some type with government.


Demography and Families

January 1999

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In recent years, the demography of families has drawn increasing attention from a number of disciplines, including sociology, history, anthropology, economics, psychology, and family studies. This chapter aims, first, to summarize the major empirical themes of family demography. Second, it aims to place these themes within a conceptual and explanatory framework..



New Action Theory and Contemporary Families

March 1993

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Journal of Family Issues

Growing diversities among families and households throughout Western societies are documented. The prevailing conceptual approach has been to distinguish “the family” from alternative life-styles. That dichotomy, rooted in functionalist thought (“old action theory”) is rejected. Drawing on what is called “new action theory” a model for conceptualizing contemporary families is presented. The model assumes that persons construct their families within a societal context that, as Giddens argues, is both constraining and enabling. The authors conceive of families as primary groups. There are least four kinds of interdependencies —each with numerous subfacets, and existing in varied combinations—that give rise to perceptions of families: extrinsic, intrinsic, sexual, and formal. The authors identify two broad expressions of primary groups. One is based on generalized exchange and univocal reciprocity. The other rests on restricted exchange and mutual reciprocity/contingency. Because the authors argue that social theory cannot be divorced from social policy, they offer policy implications of this theoretical approach.


Structural-Functionalism

January 1993

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Our task in this chapter is unique and thus extraordinarily challenging. The task is unique because unlike the remaining theory chapters, we consider a framework that has become virtually obsolete throughout general sociology (Coleman, 1990). Thirty years ago, structural-functionalism (or simply, functionalism) occupied a central place in family anthologies (McIntyre, 1966; Pitts, 1964). But in more recent collections, no one noticed or cared that it was omitted (Burr et al., 1979; Sus-sman & Steinmetz, 1987). Nevertheless, this book must address functionalism (1) because of its historic significance for studies of families, and (2) because functinalist assumptions remain central to family sociology and family studies, in spite of arguments to the contrary (Broderick, 1971a; Holman & Burr, 1980). To understand why functionalism was once considered important, then fell into disrepute, but continues to be significant for family research, we must first grasp what it was and is trying to say.



Perceptions of parenting behavior and young women's gender role traits and preferences

August 1991

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This study examines the effect of perceptions of mothers' and fathers' parenting behavior on their college-aged daughter's gender role development. Unlike in previous studies, in this analysis we consider both the gender role traits of young females (their instrumentality and expressiveness) and their gender role preferences (modernity vs. traditionalism) simultaneously. Three alternative empirical models are tested with data from 163 randomly selected college-aged females using analysis of covariance structures in LISREL VII. Findings substantiated the hypothesis that perceptions of earlier parenting behavior exert a substantial influence on gender role developments of children, particularly regarding mothers' influence on the instrumentality and expressiveness of their daughters. Mothers' parenting, measured along the dimensions of encouragement and control, was generally more strongly related to their daughters' gender role traits than was fathers'. Little influence of parenting behavior on daughters' gender role preferences was found.


Citations (30)


... In heterosexual romantic relationships, gender role relationships (GRR) may be seen as falling along a continuum. At one end of this GRR continuum are traditional or conventional couples who enact stereotypical gendered roles, with male partners as breadwinners and chief household decision makers and female partners focusing their energies on raising children, maintaining households, and providing emotional support to family members (Scanzoni et al. 1989). On the other end of the GRR continuum are nontraditional or nonconventional couples who reverse these gendered roles in their daily interactions, with female partners in charge of work and family decisions and male partners taking supportive roles. ...

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Emerging Adults' Expectations and Preferences for Gender Role Arrangements in Long-Term Heterosexual Relationships
The Sexual Bond: Rethinking Families and Close Relationships.
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  • July 1990

Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews

Robert S. Weiss

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Linda Thompson

... After discussing the causes of remittance, more importantly, we need to explore what effects remittance would bring to the migratory family. An extensive literature (Conger et al., 1990;Liker and Elder, 1983;Teachman, Polonko, and Scanzoni, 1987) shows that there is a strong relationship between general economic circumstances in the household and the quality of family relationships. In poor families, marital interaction is an important dimension influenced by financial issues in family and the working husband usually discusses with his wife, rather than other family members, how to spend the household income. ...

Demography of the Family
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  • January 1987

... One consistent finding in the literature is that education delays age at marriage, although the majority of individuals marry soon after completing their education (for a review, see Teachman, Polonko, & Scanzoni, 1999, p. 49). This effect seems particularly pronounced for women (Teachman et al., 1999). It is possible, then, that those in university behave differently in their time frame of introducing their parents to their mates, or in the reasons for the introduction. ...

Demography and Families
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  • January 1999

... However, in dyadic decision making, the less dominant member of the dyad may simply go along with an alternative proposed by the more dominant member to preserve the relationship (Poole & Billingsley, 1989). However, even when reporting agreement, the less dominant member may disagree subjectively and hold feelings that the decision was unfair or that his or her wishes were not satisfied by the decision (Scanzoni, 1989). Given this possibility, it is hypothesized that the less dominant dyad member (the mother) would expect a less positive outcome of the decision and have greater feelings of regret than the more dominant member (the adult child, especially the son). ...

Joint Decision Making in the Contemporary Sexually Based Primary Relationship
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  • January 1989

... Selfcompassion helps the individual feel more emotionally connected with, and receptive to the flaws of their partner. Past studies suggest that trust toward one's romantic partner is based on the understanding of their behavior (Deutsch, 1960;Rempel et al., 1985;Scanzoni, 1979). Self-kindness as part of self-compassion encourages the individu al to show compassion towards oneself by understanding one's self-value. ...

Social Exchange and Behavioral Interdependence
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  • December 1979

... In his study on the change of the family during the urbanization process, Keskin (2016) found that the perceptions on engaging together in the family-decision-making process are higher in the villages than in the cities. In the study conducted by Scanzoni and Arnett (1987), it was stated that women and men living in rural areas were less educated than those living in the city, and their gender role preferences were more traditional. In the study conducted by Erbil and Pasinlioğlu (2004), it was determined that as the level of education increased, women's participation in the decision-making within the family also increased. ...

Policy Implications Derived from a Study of Rural and Urban Marriages
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  • October 1987

Family Relations

... Son los centros privados y religiosos los que puntúan más alto en la escala de sexismo, datos que corroboran la investigación de Glick, Lameiras y Rodríguez (2002) donde se demuestra que las creencias religiosas de las personas están relacionadas con el nivel de sexismo. Morgan & Scanzoni (1993) también concluyen en su investigación que a mayor religiosidad mayor nivel de sexismo hacia las mujeres, al igual que Rodríguez et al, (2010) quienes reflejan que los chicos ARTICULOS y las chicas que se manifiestan como católicos (practicantes o no practicantes) tienen actitudes más sexistas hacia mujeres que los que se consideran agnósticos. Estas conclusiones nos hacen reflexionar sobre la influencia del estilo educacional (considerando el estilo de los colegios privados más rígido y conservador) como factor desencadenante del comportamiento sexista de los participantes. ...

Religious Orientations and Women's Expected Continuity in the Labor Force
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  • May 1987

... This study draws particularly from the resource theory and collective bargaining-type models of intra-household decision-making. The resource theory of power (developed by sociologists) suggests that the power of each partner is related to his or her relative resources (Blood & Wolfe, 1960;Cantillon et al., 2016;Scanzoni & Polonko, 1980;Wolfe, 1959), defining resources as anything that any individual family member can offer to the other to help that person satisfy his or her needs or attain his or her goals (Hesse-Biber & Williamson, 1984). Therefore, give-and-take and power dynamics are common, and negotiations and bargaining are part of resolving differences within couples. ...

A Conceptual Approach to Explicit Marital Negotiation
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  • February 1980

... Women still belong to the comparatively disadvantaged stratum, typically because of domestic pressures, while modern societies offer the opportunity to enhance the interchangeability of gender between the public and households (Scanzoni & Fox 1980). This indicates the idea of women to conceptualize the role of women, fatherhood and motherhood in family life (Ramu, 1989). ...

Sex Roles, Family and Society: The Seventies and Beyond
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  • November 1980

... Recent research examines such multilateral negotiation processes, which form an integral part of state-state cooperation (Berton, Kimura, & Zartman, 1999;Habeeb, 1988;Kremenyuk, 1991;Panke, 2013;Plantey, 2007;Zartman & Rubin, 2009), and focuses on the broad array of negotiation strategies, such as bargaining, arguing, or framing (Dür & Mateo, 2010b;Odell, 2002;Panke, 2015;Pruitt, 1991). In addition, it studies how negotiation outcomes are achieved (Druckman, 1997;Odell, 2002;Scanzoni & Godwin, 1990), and it examines the variety of institutional arenas in which states cooperate and the institutional design choices that states face in creating or changing international organizations (Abbott, Keohane, Moravcsik, Slaughter, & Snidal, 2000;Goodin, 1995;Koremons et al. 2001;Panke, 2010). This research offers important empirical insights into how and under what scope conditions states create and change international organization structures (polity), international organization procedures (politics) as well as the policy outcomes of international organizations. ...

Negotiation Effectiveness and Acceptable Outcomes
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  • September 1990

Social Psychology Quarterly