Social Structure and Mobility in Cuba
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2581918 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wyatt Macgaffey (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1961 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 94 |
| Publication date | 1961-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-5491 • E-ISSN: 1534-1518 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3317073 |
| OpenAlex | W2331419558 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
The only study of Cuban social organization with any claim to comprehensiveness is Lowry Nelson's Rural Cuba, 1950. Nelson suggests that although lower, middle and upper classes may be distinguished according to the usual objective criteria, the subjective evaluations of Cubans pointed to only two classes, upper and lower. While making it clear that Cuban society was far from rigid and its two classes by no means homogeneous, Nelson (1950:147) discusses vertical mobility and the dynamics of interclass relations only with reference to the labor movement. The most striking aspects of this problem belonged in fact to the urban scene and thus fell outside the scope of his study. Nelson also omitted discussion of the paternalistic concept of government as a factor in the definition of classes; this also is most significant in urban contexts
Economic geography · Geography · Sociology · Cuban History and Society
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,02 |
| Citation span | 1965 - 1965 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |