African Urbanism, Mobility and the Social Network

Gutkind, Peter C. W.

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“…3 The author's analysis of the 1960 Census Onein-a-thousand sample showed that this pattern was not a function of size of metropolitan area, but solely a function of the size of the central city. A one-fourth subset of heads of households under the age of sixty-three had the following distribution of persons living alone or with a non-relative: Axelrod, 1956;Gans, 1962;Gutkind, 1965;Greer, 1962;Bell and Boat, 1957). Comparative studies are rare but generally report few urban-rural differences in social involvement (Reiss, 1959;Sutcliffe and Crabbe, 1963;Bultena, 1969;Wright and Hyman, 1958;Curtis, 1971).…”

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On Urban Alienations and Anomie: Powerlessness and Social Isolation

Fischer¹

1973

American Sociological Review

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On Urban Alienations and Anomie: Powerlessness and Social Isolation

Fischer¹

1973

American Sociological Review

138

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“…Elizabeth Bott's (6, 7, 8) pioneer work demonstrated how morphological characteristics of networks could be related to marital role segregation. Since that time, the importance of social networks as a mediating factor in human behavior has been studied with respect to such issues as political elections (3, 26), urban organization (10, 14, 17), personal crises (5), help‐seeking behavior (20), hospital admissions (15), and avowed happiness (9). Additionally, social network therapy has been reported to be effective in treating severely disturbed families (22, 23, 25).…”

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Social Networks, Support, and Coping: An Exploratory Study

1976

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This paper reports a study that investigated the areas of stress, support, and coping, using the structural model of the social network. The social network model is borrowed from sociology and anthropology and is used to describe and quantify not only an individual's immediate family but also all of those with whom the individual has regular contact. By comparing the networks of a sample of "normal" and schizophrenic males, it was possible to identify differences in their relationships to their social networks, in the make-up of the networks themselves, and in the coping styles and recent histories of the subjects. The results suggest, first, that the network model can be used to investigate the larger social system with which individuals interact and, second, that it may be a valuable approach to the expansion of family research.

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“…The bulk of the literature took aim at prevalent theories which identified urbanization with the decline of extended kinship. Scores of studies, focusing primarily on rural-urban migration, documented the continuing importance of extended kinship among immigrants to the city and suggested that kinship networks were partially responsible for determining who would migrate and where they would go (Brown et al 1963;Choldin 1973;Wilkening et al 1968;MacEwen 1973;Tilly and Brown 1967;Gutkind 1965).…”

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Household Organization and Migration in Nineteenth-Century Italy

Kertzer¹,

Hogan²

1990

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Kinship ranks second only to economic factors in social-scientific attempts to explain who migrates, when they move, and where they go. A person’s household circumstances are commonly thought to influence his or her propensity to move, as is the presence of other kin in the same community. Furthermore, the existence and location of kin in other communities are commonly thought to affect both the propensity to move and the choice of destination. Much of the international migration literature, accordingly, focuses on kin chains of migration, while much of the contemporary internal migration literature focuses on rural-urban kinship ties and on the continuing importance of extended kinship ties in societies experiencing high rates of urban-bound migration.

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African Urbanism, Mobility and the Social Network

Cited by 14 publications

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On Urban Alienations and Anomie: Powerlessness and Social Isolation

On Urban Alienations and Anomie: Powerlessness and Social Isolation

Social Networks, Support, and Coping: An Exploratory Study

Household Organization and Migration in Nineteenth-Century Italy

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