Rural Society and Social Networks in Nineteenth-Century Westphalia: The Role of Godparenting in Social Mobility

Fertig, Christine

doi:10.1162/jinh.2009.39.4.497

Cited by 11 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 7 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Ve studiích věnovaných kmotrovství bývá tradičně upozorňováno na výběr kmotrů na základě sociálního statusu (například Pflegerová 2011;Aschenbrenner 1975;Fertig 2009;Marttila 2010;Ericcson 2000). Individuální zájmy založené do značné míry na potřebě udržovat či rozšiřovat materiální, ale také symbolické zdroje tedy bývají reflektovány, nicméně mnohdy chybí bližší zdůvodnění uváděných tezí i jejich teoretické zakotvení v kontextu sociálních věd.…”

Section: Reciprocita a Reprodukce Sociálního Kapitálu V Kontextu Hori...unclassified

Reciprocita a reprodukce sociálního kapitálu v kontextu kmotrovských vazeb

Blechová¹

2022

Acta FF ZČU

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study focuses on the role of godparenthood in building social capital in Europe during the 19th century. It seeks to explain how social capital was reproduced in horizontal and vertical ties and what role reciprocity played. However, reciprocity is viewed primarily in the narrow context of social capital theory. Texts on godparenthood usually point to relationships based purely on utilitarian grounds. They typically lack support in social science theory and the terminology used is rarely discussed in detail. Drawing on basic texts from social capital theory or anthropology and history (in the case of godparenthood), the aim of the present text is to outline how social capital can be practically built through godparent relationships. In the introductory section, the basic structure of the reciprocity process is presented. The following passages focus specifically on the application of reciprocity in godparent relationships. The paper first seeks to answer a question that follows quite organically from the previous theoretical introduction. How is it possible that the so-called integrative ties (trust or solidarity) developed based on godparent ties, which were often purposively concluded and characterised by a negotiated and fully institutionalised type of exchange?

show abstract

Section: Reciprocita a Reprodukce Sociálního Kapitálu V Kontextu Hori...unclassified

Reciprocita a reprodukce sociálního kapitálu v kontextu kmotrovských vazeb

Blechová¹

2022

Acta FF ZČU

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Teoretické i metodologické základy moderního studia dějin křtů a kmotrovství položili francouzští a italští badatelé (Alfani -Goudon -Robin 2015), pozornost je jim ale věnována také mimo historicky katolické oblasti, například v Německu (Fertig 2009) nebo ve Skandinávii (Ericsson 2000), objevují se i v jihovýchodní Evropě (Violić-Koprivec -Vekarić 2017). Většina připomenutých výzkumů se metodicky opírá o analýzy matričních záznamů, které jsou zároveň zdrojem klasických historickodemografických poznatků o populačním vývoji oblasti (nejnověji například Dalla Zuanna -Minello -Piccione 2017: zejména 149-193).…”

Section: úVodunclassified

Čas křtu a výběr jména novorozence ve venkovské společnosti 19. století

Skořepová¹

2018

ČL

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The essay deals with the issue of baptismal practice in the rural society in the 19th century based on the quantitative analysis of 7229 entries from the parish register of births of the market town of Nový Rychnov and four surrounding villages from 1800-1899. Attention is paid to the interval between the birth and the christening of a child, and to the popularity of names. During the whole century, children were baptized usually in one week after birth, but the interval was slowly prolonging. The day of birth often influenced the name of the child, the custom to christen according to the calendar was still vital. The list of frequently given names reflected the persisting popularity of certain baroque saints, but also new fashionable trends and patriotic sentiment.

show abstract

“…Decay functions can assign a lower strength to past ties. 11 These 10 On the difficult construction of matrices of simultaneous ties, even in the seemingly simple case of demographic data (birth, baptism, death, marriage, divorce), see Fertig 2009 andMunno 2010. 11 In the wider research related to the aforementioned paper, Karim Hammou experimented with this strategy to discuss the significance of past artistic cooperation.…”

Section: Assigning Dates To Ties: Difficult Decisionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Taking time seriously

Lemercier¹

2015

Sozialtheorie

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Sociologists are arguably the first, among humanists and social scientists, who have built a consistent canon of social network analysis. This includes often cited pioneering papers, the concepts and indicators that these had introduced, software allowing to calculate such indicators and to produce more and more standardized visualizations, and textbooks summing up and coagulating these elements (e.g. Scott/Carrington 2011). 2 In this canon, standard network data typically include a dozen to a few hundreds individuals or organizations, whose ties are described thanks to sociometric surveys, i.e. by asking individuals about one or a few specific types of relationships at a given moment. Non-standard data of course have always exi-1 Previous versions of this text have been presented in various conferences and seminars and have very much benefited from collective discussions. I am especially grateful to Fabien Accominotti, Claire Bidart, Ainhoa de Federico, Michel Grossetti, Karim Hammou, Linda Reschke, Isabelle Rosé and Tom Snijders, who in various ways made me take time more seriously, and even more to Marten Düring, who made invaluable comments on a first draft. Figures are reproduced with permissions from the authors and the journal. 2 In fact, the sociologists who built this specific canon of quantitative and structural network analysis had borrowed their main ideas to a previous generation of anthropologists and social psychologists: see Freeman (2004).

show abstract

Rural Society and Social Networks in Nineteenth-Century Westphalia: The Role of Godparenting in Social Mobility

Cited by 11 publications

References 7 publications

Reciprocita a reprodukce sociálního kapitálu v kontextu kmotrovských vazeb

Reciprocita a reprodukce sociálního kapitálu v kontextu kmotrovských vazeb

Čas křtu a výběr jména novorozence ve venkovské společnosti 19. století

Taking time seriously

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About