The Evolution of Beliefs and Opinions on Matters related to Marriage and Sexual Behaviour among French-speaking Catholic Quebecers and English-speaking Protestant Ontarians

Authors

  • Benoît Laplante Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Université du Québec, Montréal Québec
  • Caia Miller Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Université du Québec, Montréal Québec
  • Paskall Malherbe Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg France

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25336/P6B31H

Abstract

The authors argue that the important changes in behaviour related to family and sexual life that were seen in Quebec during the second half of the 20th century are a consequence of a major transformation of the foundation of the normative system shared by the members of Quebec’s main socio-religious group, Frenchspeaking Catholics. Using data from Gallup polls, the authors compare the evolution of the opinions of French-speaking Quebec Catholics and Englishspeaking Ontario Protestants on matters related to sexual and family behaviour from the 1950s to the beginning of the 2000s. The general result is that the evolution of the differences between the two groups is compatible with the hypothesis.

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Published

2006-12-31