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Structural endogamy and the network [PDF]

open access: yesMathématiques et sciences humaines, 1997
This article, one of a series, approaches the topics of marriage and kinship through a revitalized kinetic structural approach that shifts the primary focus from abstract models of rules, terminologies, attitudes and norms to exploration of concrete relations in a population, analyzed graph-theoretically in their full complexity as networks.
openaire   +1 more source

What Explains Growing Gender and Racial Education Gaps?

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study why US college graduation gaps by gender and race widened across cohorts. We develop a dynamic life‐cycle model with endogenous education, labor supply, marriage, fertility, and welfare participation. Preferences are fixed across cohorts and race/ethnic groups; changes arise from family background, labor‐market opportunities, and ...
Zvi Eckstein   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Factors Hindering Arab-Malay Cultural Integration in Palembang: Endogamy from Historical and Socio-Cultural Perspectives

open access: yesJurnal Yaqzhan: Analisis Filsafat, Agama dan Kemanusiaan
This study aims to analyze how endogamous marriage has influenced the process of Arab–Malay cultural integration in Palembang and to explain the historical factors that reinforced the persistence of this practice.
Apriana   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Educational Homogamy and Wealth: Assortative Mating, Spouses' Division of Paid Labor, and Net Worth in China

open access: yesJournal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study examines how educational assortative mating—particularly educational homogamy—shapes household net worth in urban China. Background Despite private wealth emerging as a critical indicator of financial security and social status in post‐reform China, the family‐level processes that shape wealth accumulation remain ...
Yu Wang, Lisa A. Keister
wiley   +1 more source

MODERNITY AND THE PERSISTENCE OF ENDOGAMOUS MARRIAGE AMONG THE FULBE OF NORTHERN NIGERIA: BETWEEN CULTURAL CONTINUITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE

open access: yesInternational Studies Journal
Research Problem: Despite changes brought by modernity, including education, urbanisation, technology, and increased contact with other ethnic groups, endogamous marriage remains common among the Fulbe of Northern Nigeria.
Abdu Auwalu Sarkin Fulani
doaj   +1 more source

Le Online Dating, au cœur de la communication électronique

open access: yesNetcom, 2012
For fifteen years, sexual and sentimental relationships « assisted by computers » has became a kind of relationnal revolution. Indeed, digital technologies permit to meet one anothers without knowing them IRL, « in the real life ».
Pascal Lardellier
doaj   +1 more source

Review: Understanding Rare Genetic Diseases in Low Resource Regions Like Jammu and Kashmir – India

open access: yesFrontiers in Genetics, 2020
Rare diseases (RDs) are the clinical conditions affecting a few percentage of individuals in a general population compared to other diseases. Limited clinical information and a lack of reliable epidemiological data make their timely diagnosis and ...
Arshia Angural   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Religious Pluralism and Social Networks: How Exposure to Religious Pluralism Through Social Ties Influences Baptism Decisions

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A longstanding debate in the sociology of religion has focused on how religious pluralism affects religious participation. Existing research shows mixed findings, often relying on macro‐level measures that overlook how individuals are actually exposed to religious pluralism in their lives. This study shifts focus to the meso‐level by examining
Elis Carlberg Larsson
wiley   +1 more source

Different Paths, Shared Beliefs? Religion and Partnership Formation Among Young Male Refugees and Descendants of Immigrants in Germany

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The present study examines how religion shapes partnership formation and religious homogamy among Syrian and Afghan male refugees who arrived in Germany during the 2015/16 influx. It provides new insights by focusing on a particularly vulnerable group of refugees who are culturally distant from the host society and comparing them to ...
Jana Kuhlemann   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The endogamy tradition and the performance of informal owner-manager ventures in Sub-Saharan Africa

open access: yes, 2022
Informal businesses, ubiquitous in developing countries, operate on the fringes of the (often ineffective) state, and are instead influenced by informal institutions.
Zhang, Peng   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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