Extended Kinship Ties in Malaysia

Bibliographic Data

ID2958636
AuthorsP K Roy (0000-0003-2225-7360, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, School of Business and Social Sciences, Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education, Churchill, Victoria. 3842. Australia.), Prantik Roy (0000-0001-5438-4925, NSW Department of Education, corresponding author)
Year1984
Volume15
Issue2
Pages175-194
Publication date1984-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Comparative Family Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-2328 • E-ISSN: 1929-9850
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/jcfs.15.2.175
OpenAlexW2300158077
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited14

Drawing upon a sample of 1007 households, the present study has attempted to examine the significance of kinship networks in Malaysia. Through the investigation of frequency of kin contact, and actual help seeking behaviour the persistence and reinforcement of kinship solidarity and dependence amongst the sample households were measured. These were compared with the findings of previous theoretical and empirical studies conducted elsewhere. With respect to, for example, personal problems, illness, finance and caring for children, there was evidence of kinship support, thus suggesting the prevalence of wider kin family networks in Malaysia. An overall high rate of kinship contacts and obligations was found both upper and lower economic sections of the population

Demographic economics · Economics · Fictive kinship · Kinship · Political science · Population · Sample (material) · Sociology · Solidarity · Anthropology · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Psychology · Social Psychology