K inship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23628351 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Janelle Brady (0000-0002-8665-9134, University of Toronto), Christopher Cully, C M Cully (0000-0001-7242-8872, University of Toronto) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 1-3 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118430873.est0198 |
| OpenAlex | W4238134357 |
| ISBN | 9781118430873 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Societies around the world are significantly influenced by kinship in one way or another. It can be argued that kinship is in decline; however, there are new and emerging ways of looking at kinship. Goode's major thesis posits that the expansion of economic systems vis‐à‐vis industrialization leads to the decentralization of extended kinship bonds. Instead, the conjugal family takes shape and becomes the central and independent kinship unit. Conjugal families, similar to the nuclear family, are small marriage‐ and children‐based families and at one point were the dominant Western industrial family model. Parsons states that adults are part of two conjugal families: the one that they are born into and the second that they form in adulthood. Goode followed the modernization thesis in that all of the “developing world” would move from more traditional to conjugal families once industrialization had occurred, leading to weakened family control over matters such as marriage partner selection. In the latter part of the twentieth century, people were more likely to postpone marriage, get divorced, have children outside marriage, have premarital sex, and cohabit. These societal changes and effects on kin were not predicted in Goode's original analysis of conjugal families.
Extended family · Family life · Fictive kinship · Genealogy · Industrialisation · Kinship · Modernization theory · Nuclear family · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender Studies · History · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Law
Industrialization and Society
Age and Sex in the Social Structure of the United States
Goode's World Revolution and Family Patterns
Adopt a Daughter-in-Law, Marry a Sister
Does a House Divided Stand? Kinship and the Continuity of Shared Living Arrangements
Incest Avoidance, the Incest Taboo, and Social Cohesion
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |