Riitta Jallinoja: 2 books
Families and Kinship in Contemporary Europe
Rules and Practices of Relatedness
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Instead of seeing the family as a 'monolithic' entity, as though separate from its surroundings, this new approach draws attention to assemblages of various types that in different constellations and through different transactions relate people to each other as families and kin.
Families, Status and Dynasties
1600-2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
This book takes a novel approach to family, exploring in detail how status is inherited and maintained within families; the process of upward social mobility; and how the roots of social decline start within families. The author also examines how rigidly status equivalence determines choice of spouse....