Marriage, Family, and Kinship Marriage. Family background and educational level are important considerations in matchmaking. Marriage between people with a common surname and origin place ( tongsong tongbon ) was prohibited by law until 1997. Many urbanites find their spouse at schools or work...
kinshipAsiamodernisationson preferenceChina, South Korea and northwest India manifest extreme child sex ratios. This paper argues that this is because their pre-modern political and administrative systems used patrilineages to organise their citizens, generating uniquely rigid patriliny and son preference....
This study aims to explain similarity and difference in geographic proximity between elderly parents and their children in Korea and Japan. Using data sets from two nationally representative surveys conducted in Korea and Japan, this study examines the extent to which needs and kinship of elderly par...
Family firms may face unqualified human resources if family members are assigned to management positions due to nepotism, kinship, or distrust of members rather than recognition of employee ability. “Unfair” human resource management can lead to employees’ lack of incentive to invest specific ...
kinship bonds, the fact that brokers ('mothers') and sex workers ('daughters') operate under the framework of a family ethos which allows them to establish intimate and unequal relationships, and socialising and reproductive processes inscribed in the family form, are defining structural features. ...
Family and Kinship, History of T.K. Hareven, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2001 1 Emergence of the Field Recent historical research on the family has revised some widely held myths about family life in the past, as well as generalizations about the impact ...
But it is only during the last decade that sociology has discovered again the full extent of the family as a kinship and especially a generational system beyond the nuclear household (Bengtson, 2001), which includes massive monetary relations and flows as well.In the meantime we have become ...
Marriage, Family, and Kinship Marriage. Individual registration has had a significant effect on the North Korean marriage system. In Korean tradition, marriage between a man and a woman who share the same family origin is not allowed. Since all Koreans were required to keep family records ...
Marriage, Family, and Kinship Marriage. Marriage is generally based on mutual attraction between individuals; this is known as a "love marriage" in contrast to the traditional "arranged marriage" in which a go-between negotiated a match in a process that might give parental opinions more ...
Marriage (also called matrimony or wedlock) is a social union or legal contract between people called spouses that establishes rights and obligations between the spouses, between the spouses and their children, and between the spouses and their in-laws.[1] The definition of marriage varies accordin...