Kinship, family and social network

Kinship, Family and Social Network: The anthropological embedment of fertility change in Southern Europe

There is considerable overlap between Le Play’s mid-eighteenth-century household model map and the regional TFR map of central-southern Europe in the 1980s. The author examines the overall structure of relationships involved in Le Play’s typology and observes that both the stemfamily and the unstable family area in the Southern Europe are marked by a small, close-knit network of strong ties, wi...

African Family and Kinship

Family and Social Network

This is a sociological study of twenty urban families in Greater London and it forms part of a research project shared between the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and the Family Welfare Association. The families studied were "ordinary families" and this concept was used in clarifying the project to the subjects of the research as they were gradually accumulated. Data was sought about the...

Kinship Network Analysis

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Family and Kinship in East London

Here is a full and balanced account of working-class relationships which makes interesting and fruitful reading. The samples used may be small but they are presented in an ordered and convincing way; and although the main feature is the distinctive framework of Bethnal Green yet, basically the conclusion reached seems to be that it has much in common with other comparable urban communities with...