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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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都市家族のソーシャル・ネットワーク・パターン
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the network pattern of urban families by using the concept of tie strength and find that the component of family network on the basis of the tie strength differs by social class, and that the resource mobilizati on pattern also differs by the social class.
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The Mothers: Negotiating Feminist Activism in/with the Family
TL;DR: In this paper, Cisneros and Castillo focus on women characters who adopt feminist mothering practices that allow them to move beyond their prescribed roles as women in the family, and reveal the ways in which the family can become a potential space for collective empowerment and social change.
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Asymmetry in the Intergenerational Relations of Urban Family
Tetsuo Mitani,Kazuo Seiyama +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the changes of the comtemporary Japanese family in terms of asymmetrical aspects in the intergenerational ties and five hypotheses on asymmetrical relations are statistically examined.
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Elderly differential resources and patterns of intergenerational exchange.
Ariela Lowenstein,O. Cibulski +1 more
TL;DR: The findings show the multidimensionality of intergenerational bonds, and support the hypothesis that the amount of personal resources is positively related to expressive interactions and inversely to instrumental aid.
Determining patterns of exchanges and expanded family relationships
TL;DR: In this paper, path analysis is used to develop a causal model for determining patterns of exchange in kinship relations, which is a composite index based upon report patterns of gift giving, sharing of routine tasks, discussion of daily problems, child care, and providing financial assistance.
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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.