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Men in a Developing Society - Geographic and Social Mobility in Monterrey, Mexico (Paperback)
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Men in a Developing Society - Geographic and Social Mobility in Monterrey, Mexico (Paperback)
Series: LLILAS Latin American Monograph Series
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The central objective of Men in a Developing Society is to show, as
concretely as possible, how men experience a period of rapid
economic development, particularly in the areas of migration,
occupational mobility, and status attainment. It is based mainly on
a sample of 1,640 men in Monterrey, Mexico, a large and rapidly
growing manufacturing metropolis in northern Mexico with much
in-migration, and a sample of 380 men in Cedral, San Luis Potosi, a
small, economically depressed community with high rates of
out-migration, much of it to Monterrey. The study of men in
Monterrey is perhaps the most thorough one yet conducted of
geographic and social mobility in a Latin American city. In part,
this was possible because of the innovation of collecting complete
life histories that record what each man was doing for any given
year in the lay areas of residence, education, family formation,
and work. These data permit the effective use of the concepts of
life cycle and cohort analysis in the interpretation of the men's
geographic and occupational mobility. The experience of the
Monterrey men in adapting to the varied changes required by their
mobility was not found to be as difficult as is often indicated in
the social science literature on the consequences of economic
development. In part this may be because Monterrey, in comparison
with most other Latin American cities, has been unusually
successful in its economic growth. The impact of migration also was
lessened because most of the men had visited the city prior to
moving there and many had friends or relatives in the city. The age
of the migrants upon arrival in Monterrey made a significant
difference in subsequent occupational mobility; those of nonfarm
background who arrived before age 25 fared better than natives of
the city. Although it appears that status inheritance in Monterrey
is somewhat higher than in industrialized countries, a considerable
proportion of men do move up the occupational ladder. And perhaps
as important, the Monterrey men, whether or not they themselves are
moving up, perceive the society as an open one. The very success of
Monterrey's development created conditions that would bring about
changes in the educational, economic, and cultural expectations of
its inhabitants. Thus, paradoxically, the general satisfaction and
the lack of group and class conflict in Monterrey over the previous
decades may well have given rise to future dissatisfaction and
conflict.
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