 The Repertoire of Infidelity among Low-Income Men: Doubt, Duty, and DestinyNathan Edward Fosse
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2010, vol. 629, issue 1, 125-143 Abstract: In an effort to explain the rise of unwed parenthood in the inner city over the past several decades, a large body of research has attributed the phenomenon in part to low-income men’s unwillingness to commit to long-term, monogamous relationships. A major limitation of these studies, however, is that virtually none attempt to understand relationship dissolution by comparing low-income inner-city men in monogamous and nonmonogamous long-term heterosexual relationships. Drawing from a convenience sample of thirty-eight low-income monogamous and nonmonogamous men, this article develops a typology of three cultural logics of action used by respondents to motivate behavior in relationships: doubt, duty, and destiny. These cultural logics help to explain how poverty influences sexual action; nevertheless, this typology supports an emerging literature demonstrating the ways in which the sexual “culture of poverty†is contingent, contradictory, indeterminate, and multivocal. Keywords: poverty; culture; sexuality; infidelity; monogamy; masculinity; logics (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:anname:v:629:y:2010:i:1:p:125-143 Access Statistics for this article More articles in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science |
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