kinship network
collocation in Englishmeaningsofkinshipandnetwork
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kinship
noun[U]
uk/ˈkɪn.ʃɪp/us/ˈkɪn.ʃɪp/
the relationship between members of the ...
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network
noun[C]
uk/ˈnet.wɜːk/us/ˈnet.wɝːk/
a large system consisting of many similar parts that are connected together to allow movement or communication between or along the parts, or between the parts and a ...
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(Definition ofkinshipandnetworkfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofkinship network
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Thekinshipnetworkthat bound them together must have enhanced their capacity to co-operate and pursue common goals.
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Strong social ties usually exist between nodes in akinshipnetwork, while weak ties characterize networks where casual encounters occur between strangers or acquaintances.
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Such cases are generally dealt within the close preserve of the family, and/or itskinshipnetwork.
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It is based on kinship groups formed not only by blood relatives, but also by ritual relatives incorporated within thekinshipnetworkthrough the practice of compadrazgo.
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A married woman took on the status of her husband and became - in the case of a foundling, for the first time - part of a largerkinshipnetwork.
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Kinship terms are quite broad and often can be applied to many types of relationships, depending on where the person falls in thekinshipnetwork.
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The duration and intensity of aid needed can dictate the quality of thekinshipnetworkavailable to the immigrant.
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An alternative explanation would focus, again, on the dynamics of kinship networks.
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Moreover, in this region of nuclear households, no extended kinship networks could be identified that served as an encompassing decision-making unit for emigrants.
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From the antebellum period onwards, kinship networks and the domestic environment were crucial in the establishment and maintenance of this bourgeois world.
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They were also characterised by extensive kinship networks.
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They were, after all, not poorer than those who stayed (and, as we shall see, they were equally embedded in the local kinship networks).
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The relationships between household composition, intra-household relations, wider kinship networks and economic vulnerability are therefore complex as well as difficult to represent and interpret.
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In practice reciprocity was more usually confined within kinship networks and most respondents reported neither giving nor receiving benefits from their neighbours or local community.
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The studies mentioned above have concentrated on the importance of kinship networks for old parents.
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Friends and family, making up akinshipnetwork, who are willing to help the newcomers can be classified as a type of capital commonly referred to as social capital.
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However, given the dialectic between grandparents and unmarried motherhood, regional patterns also reflect strong interdependencies between generations within informal kinship networks.
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Strategic marriages were treated as a means to construct kinship networks.
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However, in both cases children are very much incorporated in transnational kinship networks.
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