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Isolation, Function, and Beyond: American Kinship in the 1960's.
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This article is published in Journal of Marriage and Family.The article was published on 1970-11-01. It has received 91 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Kinship.read more
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Closing the Circle: The Impact of Children on Parental Status
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Limiting Reciprocity among Relatives: Theoretical Implications of a Serendipitous Finding
TL;DR: In this paper, a factor analysis of a scale for indicating the extent to which people embrace an axiom of amity (or prescriptive altruism) in kinship ties is presented.
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Cochlear implants and codas: The impact of a technology on a community
TL;DR: This study investigates codas' perceptions of cochlear implantation using standard ethnographic methods, including in-depth, open-ended interviewing with codas, and immersion in the research population through ongoing participant-observation at a deaf school.
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Social Support Networks: A Literature Study
Sisca Lentjes,J. M. L. Jonker +1 more
TL;DR: The state concern with the welfare of the population has been growing steadily in the Netherlands and in many other Western countries where the state had assumed responsibility for an increasing number of areas of care as discussed by the authors.
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The changing American grandparent.
TL;DR: In this article, each member of 70 pairs of middle-class grandparents was interviewed at length regarding relations to grandchildren, and the data were analyzed for degree of comfort in the grandparent role, significance of the role, and style with which the role is enacted.
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Geographic mobility and extended family cohesion
TL;DR: The hypothesis that extended family relations can be maintained in an industrial, bureaucratized society despite differential rates of geographical mobility is presented in this article. But the authors do not consider the effect of geographical distance on families.
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Naming Children in Middle-Class Families
TL;DR: This paper analyzed data on the relatives children were named after as an empirical index to the subjectively salient inner core of kin in a sample of 347 urban middle-class mothers and found that boys are more apt to be named for kin than girls, and kin-naming declines sharply with each higher order of birth.