Conceptions of collaterality in modern Europe: Kinship ideologies from companionship to trusteeship

Models of collaterality derived from historical accounts of intestate law, prohibitions on marriage, and socioeconomic sources seem useful for studying the interrelationship between family and society in four European countries (Austria, Finland, Germany, and Ireland). Some kinship models are ego-focused and are consistent with companionate marriage, dual career families, ties to contemporaries, relatively low fertility, lower socioeconomic status, and ideological universalism. Still other conceptions emphasize line of descent (or ascent) and transmission of symbolic family estate. These kinship orientations support the special interests of religion, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status, view marriage as a contract between spouses and a unity of affines, regard the maternal role as especially salient, and have comparatively higher economic and occupational standing. Moreover, these corporate kinship orientations seem to be associated with the degree to which pluralism is an important criterion in the structuring of society.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Baker, David Joseph

Contributors dc:contributor

• Southwood, Kenneth

• Anthropology, Cultural
• Law
• Sociology, Individual and Family Studies

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1992 Baker, David Joseph

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9215773
(UMI)AAI9215773

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/21566