This paper investigates the determinants of female autonomy in Indonesia using the 2000 Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS3). We consider the role of kinship norms and the effect of labor force participation on female autonomy. Our measure of autonomy is based on self-reported answers to an array of questions relating to decision making authority in the household. They include economic and chi...

Reverse addressing is an interesting realization of kinship terms in interactive, face to face communication. This descriptive study was proposed to examine the use of family address pronouns in Iran as a function of the classical sociological parameters of age, sex, and social distance. It investigated various aspects of reverse addressing as a vernacular phenomenon. Data were reported from th...

This paper analyses the association between traditional family structures based on intergenerational and gender tasks and kinship solidarity and the family and employment policies in Southern European countries (Spain, Italy and Greece) from a compared perspective. In this way, the paper studies how the persistence of structures and family strategies associated with the male breadwinner model a...

In a series of four field and mesocosm studies, we examined the effects of kinship on growth, survival, and aggregation behavior in tadpoles of the Cascades frog (Rana cascadae) under different ecological conditions. (1) Field observations of tadpole aggregations revealed ecological factors that may interact with kinship to influence tadpole interactions. (2) In an experiment conducted in mesoc...

Confusions between substantive and relational concepts of kinship as a social network have led to a number of problems that are clarified by a temporally ordered relational theory of network structure. The ordered-network approach gives rise to a novel means of graphing the social field of kinship relations, while allowing kinship to be locally defined in culturally relative terms. Its utility ...