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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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Social Class and The Locus of Reciprocity in Relationships With Adult Children
TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between patterns of reciprocal and asymmetrical intergenerational aid and the parent's rating of the quality of their relationships with adult children, posing two questions: Is there an identifiable pattern of specific substantive exchanges that contributes most to high relationship ratings? And is this distinctive locus of reciprocity different in blue-collar and white-collar families?
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Resource Theory and Power in Families: Life Cycle Considerations
TL;DR: It is argued that the autonomy of elderly parents has increased, but their power and influence over adult children has decreased, and this trend is likely to continue in coming decades.
Everything old is new again: a social and cultural history of life on the retirement frontier, 1950-2000
TL;DR: Otis as mentioned in this paper explored the history of aging in mid-to-late twentieth century America through the lens of retirement life in Florida, a state long synonymous with shuffleboard and park benches.
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Parental Power and Marriage Patterns: An Analysis of Historical Trends in Hingham, Massachusetts
TL;DR: In this paper, a reconstitution analysis of the families of Hingham, Massachusetts, from the mid-seventeenth through the midnineteenth century, important changes in the extent of parental control over marriage formation are documented and analyzed.
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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.