Kinship

The study of kinship tends to be associated more closely with social anthropology than with sociology. In large part, this is a consequence of anthropologists frequently studying societies in which social and economic organization was premised to a great extent on the obligations and responsibilities that kin had towards one another. Consequently, understanding the kinship system operating in such a society provided the anthropologist with a means of revealing the society's dominant structural characteristics. In contrast, sociologists focused more on industrial societies in which family and kinship solidarities, while of consequence, were far less central to the overall organization of social and economic life. Indeed, often, family relationships were understood to be of declining significance within western societies. Like the collapse of community, the decline of kinship solidarities was understood as a necessary consequence of the economic specialization and bureaucratic rationalization associated with modernity and industrial development

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• A sociology of friendship and kinship

  Graham A Allan•A sociology of friendship and…•1979

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• Family, socialization and interaction process

  Talcott Parsons•Family, socialization and…•1955

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• Mothering

  Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Grace Chang et al.•Mothering•2016

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• The Family and Industrial Society

  Stephen Edgell, C C Harris•British Journal of Sociology•1985

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• American Kinship

  David M Schneider•American kinship•1980

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