Family Interactions among Local and Refugee Chinese Families in Hong Kong

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ID2586592
AuthorsWilliam T Liu (corresponding author)
Year1966
Volume28
Issue3
Pages314
Publication date1966-08-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Marriage and the Family (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-2445 • E-ISSN: 1741-3737
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/349881
OpenAlexW2315302184
LanguageEN
Citations received7

family system as a core organizational unit of the larger community. In general, two kinds of material constitute current knowledge about the Chinese family. The first deals mainly with the normative structure of the kinship system with careful documentations of kinship terms and prescriptions of status and obligations.1 The ideal norm of kinship structure was, however, best descriptive of the old gentry class of a later dynastic period.2 The second kind of material deals mainly with analytical and expository studies of families in transition based on ethnographic observation and on newspapers and other written documents.3 Systematic inquiries into the actual family processes and socialization of the young have not been pursued with vigor. For example, Ward reported that differences between boys and girls in temper tantrums are so discernible that the age and sex

Ethnography · Genealogy · Gentry · Geography · Kinship · Normative · Political science · Socialization · Sociology · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Psychology · Social Psychology

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