The Biographical Impact of Activism
Explores how social movements can bring about changes in demographic patterns unrelated to their stated goals. Focus is on biographical consequences that seem to result from sustained individual activism & aggregate-level changes in life-course patterns, drawing on mail questionnaire data from 1,187 US residents, born 1943-1964, to address baby boomer demographic changes. Results of simple bivariate comparison, logistic regression, & hazard-rate analysis suggest that many baby boomer demographic changes, eg, the dramatic rise in nonmarital cohabitation & avoidance of childbearing, were prompted by 1960s political/cultural movements. 8 Tables. J. Lindroth