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| Author(s): |
Joice Melo Vieira
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2009-04-23 |
| Examining board members: |
Maria Coleta Ferreira Albino de Oliveira;
Elisabete Doria Bilac;
Maria Filomena Gregori;
Jair Lício Ferreira Santos;
Suzana Cavenaghi
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| Advisor: | Maria Coleta Ferreira Albino de Oliveira |
| Abstract | |
The transition to adulthood is a critical moment in the individuals' life courses. This stage is characterized by important status changes, which may be responsible for different roots in the passage from a dependent towards an independent condition. From a sociodemographic perspective, the more important status changes are that from a student to a working condition, from a dependent to a head of a household, from a single to a married status, and from the condition of a child to that of a mother or a father. Those are the dimensions selected for the analysis of the process of transition to adulthood in the State of São Paulo, focusing on two points in time, 1970 and 2000. These where moments in which young waves have occurred, due to demographic factors affecting age structures, especially fertility changes in the past. Young cohorts have increased in volume at both moments, facing different sociodemographic contexts at the time. The aim of this analysis is to develop an integrated approach of demographic factors as well as economic and institutional ones, in a way that the timing of the transitions can be described and individuals' motivations and decisions can be understood. The main data sources used are de demographic censuses of 1970 and 2000. In addition, data from the Survey of Life Conditions (PCV) of 2006 were also used. From the methodological point of view, the principal innovation of this study is the application of the analysis of entropy of synthetic cohorts to the Brazilian census data. Entropy measures give an image of the process of standardization / de-standardization of life courses, and make it possible to describe the pace of the transition to adulthood across time. The contribution of this doctoral thesis is to revel differences in the timing of the transitions and exploring their meaning in the context were they occur. The variables taken for this endeavor are sex, household position, color/race, and income level. A shorter or longer transition depends on these sociodemographic characteristics. The results show that differentials in the pace of transition to adulthood are both a result of and an influential factor on social inequality. (AU) | |