Kin Family Network
Overheralded Structure in Past Conceptualizations of Family Functioning
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2586375 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Geoffrey Gibson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1972 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 13 |
| Publication date | 1972-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Marriage and the Family (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-2445 • E-ISSN: 1741-3737 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/349625 |
| OpenAlex | W2089928923 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
| References cited | 5 |
A critique of the argument against the nuclear is presented. Attention is drawn to vital conceptual and methodological flaws in the argument by Sussman et al. against Parsons' position. It is concluded that the case against the isolated nuclear family has yet to be made. Guidelines are put forward for a proper determination of this matter. Empirical data are presented using these guidelines. A study population of 486 disability applicants was questioned about a closed set of 24 kin made up of parents, parents-in-law, sons, daughters, brothers, and sisters. When the data was standardized for kin availability, it was found that 38 percent of available kin lived in the same city or community, 51 percent of kin were seen at least monthly, and 17 percent provided significant help. The single, divorced, and widowed were found to be more integrated into their external kin network than the married, for whom kin are of relatively low importance. It was concluded that while for nuclear families the household is the basic family system, for the nonmarried it may well be the extended kin network
Argument (complex analysis · Extended family · Genealogy · Next of kin · Nuclear family · Political science · Population · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Demography · Family and Disability Support Research · Health disparities and outcomes · History · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology
Kinship in the Seventies
Correlates of Aged Parents' Filial Responsibility Expectations and Realizations
The Impact of Social Class and Social Trends on the Role of Grandparent
Two Generations of Elderly in the Changing American Family
Family Structure and Intergenerational Exchanges
Family, kin, and friend networks in psychiatric help-seeking
The utility of natural help relationships
Family, kin, and friend networks in psychiatric help-seeking
Closing the Circle
The Impact of Disaster on Kin Relationships
Family-Kin Networks and Aging in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Family Support Networks, Welfare, and Work among Young Mothers
Interaction with Kin, Social-Status, and Well-Being Cross-Cultural Evidence from Males
Geographic distance and intergenerational contact
Geographic distance and intergenerational contact
Flexibility and sharing of childcare duties in black families
Mothers and Daughters
Kinship Interaction over the Family Life Span
Interdependence, Reciprocity and Indebtedness
Childless Elderly
Young children's social networks as a function of age and dysfunction
Kinship and Social Support of the Elderly
Community violence and sociomoral development
Perceived Parental Activity of Mothers, Fathers, and Grandmothers in Three-Generational Black Families
Perspectives on American Kinship in the Later 1990s
Young African American Grandmothers
Turning to family, friends, or others
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,51 |
| Citation span | 1973 - 2003 (31) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |