In matters of family and kinship, urban blacks are still influenced by a distinctive African cultural approach to kinship as well as adapting their views in light of new urban experiences.doi:10.1080/02533950308628679RussellMargoTaylor & Francis GroupSocial Dynamics...
Family and Kinship, History of 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 of the grand processes of social change on the family and society. Family history has...
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 ...
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...
PART II: THE FAMILY IN HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE Finite horizons: The American family - by Margaret F. Brinig (USA) Health protective behavior of young African women. Should we be using a kinship model to teach health behaviours? - by Kathryn Coe and Colleen Keller (USA) The F...
and the potential mediating and moderating role of personal growth initiative in this association among left-behind children. A total of 363 left-behind children (48.8% female;Mage = 12.97 at T1,SDage = 0.55) from five rural middle schools in the Hunan Province of China participated ...
How many months are in the Japanese calendar? What is the main religion in Korea? What is Guam's relationships to the United States? What are Aboriginal peoples' kinship systems? What type of government does the Philippines have? Do Japan and China speak the same language? What is Yoruba ...
However, negative forces are at work that can limit the firm’s potential to withstand environmental shocks when descendants run publicly listed firms. First, heirs’ control over a firm does not guarantee inherited talent or business skills, but rather signals simple kinship (Pérez-González,2006...
Thai culture has strong kinship and family ties with family members providing physical, mental and economic support to people with diabetes. In particular, family support has been found to influence the ability of the individual to self-manage their diabetes [28]. The assistance provided included ...
As long as I’m digging up roots, let me give you one more. The root of the word kindness is linked to kinship and means “with the feeling of family.” My friend Bob Bennett, who is a singer-songwriter, wrote a song called“Hand of Kindness,”which says it like this: ...