Differentiation of Family Structure and Family Relative Centrality in a Rural Peruvian Community

A Diachronic Analysis

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ID3024725
AuthorsRobert L Moxley (North Carolina State University, corresponding author)
Year1976
Volume7
Issue3
Pages409-417
Publication date1976-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Comparative Family Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-2328 • E-ISSN: 1929-9850
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/jcfs.7.3.409
OpenAlexW2939639592
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited6

This research analyzes household structure and interfamily networks. The claims by Young and Young (I 968) that an increase in a family's relative centrality in a communal network will lead to an increase in household differentiation (household complexity) is put, to a test. The findings deny the efficacy of their hypothesis, but indicate a tendency in the opposite direction. Family household differentiation of time one is positively related to relative centrality at time two (five years later). The explanation proposed in this paper is that in peasant communities, at least, it is the "marginal families" which tend to differentiate, but that these families migrate or establish social ties to families outside their community. These findings constitute evidence against the effectiveness of considering families at the center of social networks as prime targets of innovations

Centrality · Demographic economics · Differentiation · Economics · Geography · Peasant · Social science · Sociology · Agricultural Innovations and Practices · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology · Social Psychology

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