scholarly journals Economic development and family structure: From pater familias to the nuclear family

2014 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 80-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Pensieroso ◽  
Alessandro Sommacal
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Nuclear Family

Urbanization and Family Structure in the Ivory Coast

1966 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 385-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Remi Clignet
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Ivory Coast ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Relative Decline

Urbanization may be viewed as a particular manifestation of social change. As such, it is often defined as a process leading originally distinct social systems to a common destination. As an example, it is supposed to facilitate the universal emergence of a European type of nuclear family. In this perspective, many scholars have been eager to determine the extent to which African patterns of familial behavior lose their traditional specific properties. These researchers have in fact equated the problem of measuring urbanization with the problem of measuring the relative decline and persistence of traditional affiliations. Taking as examples the familial systems of two Ivory Coast peoples, the present paper intends to show some of the limitations of this type of analysis.

The Institutional Effect

Capital Women ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 159-198
Author(s):  
Jan Luiten
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Institutional Diversity ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Term Outcome ◽  
Long Term Outcome ◽  
Institutional Effect

This chapter addresses several issues, all with the underlying intention of refining and reorienting the nuclear-hardship debate. There is a need for such reorientation, as several indicators show that the long-term outcome of this process toward a society built upon nuclear households has not led to more hardship; quite the contrary. Nor would it be fair to claim that this outcome has to be entirely due to top-down provisions, and then in particular, to charity. In this chapter the authors stress the institutional diversity of the solutions for hardship and focus on one particular group in society, namely the elderly. They demonstrate that the elderly had more “agency” than is usually expected and that a combination of institutional arrangements in addition to the top-down provisions granted the elderly more options to deal with the supposed hardship of growing old in a nuclear family structure.

Women at Work: Some Changes in Family Structure in Amedzofe-Avatime, Ghana

Africa ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne Brydon
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Group Structure ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Residential Group ◽  
Traditional Area ◽  
Opening Paragraph ◽  
The Village

Opening ParagraphThis paper examines some recent developments in family and residential group structure in the village of Amedzofe-Avatime. The village is one of a group of seven which, with their surrounding farmlands, constitute the Avatime traditional area in the Volta Region of Ghana. The study of Amedzofe (and Avatime) family structure is singled out here as of interest for two reasons. In the first place, a study of current (1977) Avatime family structure indicates that new forms are emerging of patterns of child rearing. Esther Goody's work on both traditional and more recent patterns of fostering in Ghana is particularly relevant here (E. N. and J. R. Goody 1967; Goody 1970; 1975). Secondly such a study provides empirical evidence that Goode's (1963) pattern of change in family structure showing the increasing influence of ‘modernisation’, while it may be pertinent in the long term, is not being realised among Avatime. What is happening, rather, is a drift away from a stable conjugal pattern. Here I am concerned mainly with the first point. As it is elucidated, it will become clear that the incidence of Goode's nuclear family based units is not increasing in modern rural Avatime. A detailed examination of the structure and composition of residential groups and their significance for a modern society is forthcoming.

scholarly journals LIVED EXPERIENCES OF THE ABUSED ELDERLY

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Joel Rey U Acob
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Qualitative Phenomenology ◽  
Timely Review ◽  
Workplace Mistreatment ◽  
Type Of Abuse ◽  
Vulnerable Adults ◽  
Objective Indicators

Aim: The study determined individual lived experiences of the abused elderly in the provinces of Leyte and Biliran.Methods: The study utilized qualitative phenomenology. Interviews are made and recorded, then later transcribed verbatim. Collaizi’s method is used as method of analysis to obtain themes of the lived experiences of the ten abused key informants.Results: Based from results, most of the abused entities are female, widowed aging 6o to 65 years old, earning less than 2000 pesos per month and are dependently living in a nuclear family structure for 40 years. Based on their responses to the open-ended guide questions, key informants revealed emotional mistreatment being the most extensive type of abuse. Physical and sexual maltreatment are also evident amidst their old age. Family members and employers are the main identified perpetrators of the elderly. Bruises on most covered areas in their body, rope burns, torn undergarments, being touched without consent are some of the objective indicators of abuse. Themes such as family violence and workplace mistreatment are the most common form of abuse experienced.Conclusion: Based from the findings, it is recommended that the local government and concerned stakeholders to timely review existing rules protecting vulnerable adults especially its implementation. 

scholarly journals Emigration, remittances and emerging family structure: findings from a household survey in eight selected villages in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-155
Author(s):  
Imtiyaz Ali ◽  
Ram B. Bhagat ◽  
Sabiha Mahboob
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Joint Family ◽  
Extended Families ◽  
Gulf Countries ◽  
International Remittances ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Eastern Uttar Pradesh

Migration from India to the Gulf Countries has increased dramatically in recent years. Does it actually have an impact on the joint family structure? India has been known for prevailing type of joint/extended families. This paper aims to throw new evidences for introducing the concept of “federated family”. Using primary survey data collected from 328 rural emigrant households in eight villages from the district of Kushinagar in eastern Uttar Pradesh in India, this paper contributes to the debate of socio-economic development and impact of international remittances at migrants’ places of origin. It is the first study which addresses the concept of federated family in India. Federated family seems to be a joint family, where all its members stay under the same roof but use separate kitchens.

scholarly journals DETERMINANTS OF NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF UNDER 5 YEARS CHILDREN

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-10
Author(s):  
Hira Ejaz ◽  
Nirmal Walicha ◽  
Saba Rizwan ◽  
Sadaf Javeria ◽  
Sana Iqbal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Family System ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Severe Malnutrition ◽  
Major Public Health Problem ◽  
Cross Sectional

Background: Malnutrition continues to be a major public health problem in developing and underdeveloped countries. The objectives of the study were to determine the determinants of nutritional status of under 5 years children in our population. Materials & Methods: This analytical cross sectional study was conducted by the Department of Public Health, Islamabad, Federal College, Islamabad, from November 2016 to March 2017. Sample size was 200 selected by convenient sampling. Demographic variables were sex, age-groups, socio-economics status, family structure. Research variable was nutritional status. The data collection was done in urban slums of Islamabad on a structured questionnaire. Statistical analysis was done by using SPSS software. Results: Out of 200 children, 117(58.5%) were boys and 83(41.5 %) were girls. One hundred (50%) children were of 6 to 24 months and 100(50%) were of 25 to 59 months of age. Eighty three (41.5%) were rich and 117(58.5%) were poor. One hundred and fifty eight (79%) children were from joint family system and 42(21%) were living in nuclear family system were children. One hundred and fifty one (75.50%) were normal, 39(19.50%) were mild and 10(5%) were having severe malnutrition. Conclusion: Except age all the other factors including sex, socio-economics status and family structure were associated with nutritional status of under 5 year children.

Marital Bond and Genealogical Anxiety – Reaffirming the Schism between Rabbinic Texts from Babylonia and the Land of Israel

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-147
Author(s):  
Moshe Lavee
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
Patriarchal Family ◽  
Family Model ◽  
Social Features ◽  
Lower Status ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Status Of Women

Abstract Societies are constituted of thick networks of intersecting constructs: genealogical anxiety is bound up with stronger patriarchal family structures. Goody and Guichard portrayed two clusters of social features – the “Occidental” (bi-lineal family model, strengthened nuclear family, solid husband-wife relationship, monogamy, loose gender separation, and a higher status of women); and the “Oriental” (patrilineal model, broader family structure, weak husband-wife relationship, tribal importance attributed to genealogy, codes of honor and shame, legitimacy of polygamy, rigid gender separation, a lower status of women, active men, and female passivity). Following these taxonomies, the article explores the relationship between genealogical anxiety and intersecting social commitments in classical and early medieval rabbinic culture: Talmudic and Midrashic stories, as well as an exegetical narrative from an unknown Midrash preserved in the Genizah. It also claims that the earlier sources are proven helpful in reaffirming the claim for a different mode of genealogical anxiety in Babylonian sources.

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