Upward Social Mobility and Extended Family Cohesion as Perceived by the Wife in Swedish Urban Families

Bibliographic Data

ID2586964
AuthorsEverett D Dyer (corresponding author)
Year1972
Volume34
Issue4
Pages713
Publication date1972-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Marriage and the Family (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-2445 • E-ISSN: 1741-3737
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/350324
OpenAlexW2318941520
LanguageEN
Citations received3

Possible dysfunctional consequences of upward social mobility for extended family cohesion were sought from 89 upwardly mobile families in Uppsala, Sweden. Educational, occupational, and financial mobility were correlated with seven measures of extended family cohesion, which was found to be negatively correlated with differential mobility between the couple and their adult siblings, intergenerational occupational mobility, and spatial separation of the couple and their extended families. However, extended family cohesion was found to be positively correlated with lower or working-class background, and with higher ambitions of the couples. Findings thus tend to support Turner's notion that both class-consciousness and prestige identification exist together in varying degrees today in urban mobile families

Cohesion (chemistry · Developmental psychology · Dysfunctional family · Family life · Occupational prestige · Political science · Population · Prestige · Social mobility · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Wife · Working class · Clinical Psychology · Demography · Gender Studies · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Psychology · Rural development and sustainability · Social Psychology

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