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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Kinship network"”.
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A Métis wife's tale: Race, womanhood, and adaptation to settler colonialism in the diaries of Mary Hobart Williams
… did this by adapting her labor, adding to her kinship network, and using literacy to control her world.</p>
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Modernisation and changing family structure in Korea.
… framework; a discussion of the changes in the kinship network and marriage customs; and lastly a discussion on the relationship among family members. Part III comprising of two chapters, sets out the conclusions to be drawn. It examines first dissolution of the family and changing attitudes and …
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Contested connections: Networks and genre in twentieth-century British and Irish literature
The term network can refer to any collection of interconnected organisms, groups, objects, or even ideas. This dissertation concentrates on two related kinds of networks: those depicted in literary texts and those made up of literary texts. I argue that portrayals of marginalized populations’ …
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A comparative investigation of the success factors affecting local- and foreign-owned SMMEs in the Thulamela Local Municipality
… and experience; social capital factors, such as kinship network, social network, group network and information sharing; as well as cultural factors, such as owners’ propensity for long working hours and hard work. Both groups demonstrated these characteristics, however, foreign SMMEs owners use …
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Civilian Autonomy and Resilience in the Midst of Armed Conflict
… As a step forward in connecting social support networks to behavioral outcomes, I present the kinship network as a novel measure that captures an individual's valuable and private social interactions. I find that survivors of criminal violence with strong ties to kinship networks are most likely …
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THE STRUCTURE OF POLITICAL CONFLICT: KINSHIP NETWORKS AND POLITICAL ALIGNMENTS IN THE CIVIL WARS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY CHILE
Based on a novel database of kinship relations among the political elites of Chile in the nineteenth century, this thesis identifies the impact of family networks on the formation of political factions in the period 1828-1894. The sociological literature theorising the cleavages that divided elites …
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Fantasies of citizenship: adolescence and temporality in young adult literature
… with one another, they form an alternative kinship network that allows them to reimagine themselves as healers and protectors. Offered alternative avenues of growth from the monstrosities prescribed by their societies, their metamorphoses transform the world around them. In contrast to the …
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TIES OF POWER: A NETWORK ANALYSIS OF CONTRACTUAL AND KINSHIP RELATIONS BETWEEN MERCENARIES AND REGIONAL STATES IN THE WARFARE MARKET OF RENAISSANCE ITALY.
… (condottieri ) and Italian regional states and kinship relations among mercenaries between the late 14th to the beginning of the 17th centuries. In line with Granovetter’s theory of embeddedness (1985), this research emphasises that mercenary contracts in Renaissance Italy were not simply …