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Family, Kinship Structure, and Modernization in Latin America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Manuel L. Carlos  and
Lois Sellers
Manuel L. Carlos
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Barabar
Lois Sellers
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Barabar
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This Paper Analyzes Family and Kinship Patterns in Latin America Among distinct socio-economic groups in urban and rural settings. The literature on which the analysis rests is also critically examined. Much of the focus is on those aspects of the material which deal with extended family (parentesco) relations and with fictive kinship (compadrazgo) ties; less attention is given to studies and components of the nuclear family. The central theme developed in the essay is that familial ties and the institution of fictive kinship are not breaking down under the impact of modernization, despite theories and interpretations of urbanization and industrialization which maintain that the opposite is true. Our position and findings on his matter are summarized in the conclusion.

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Topical Review
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , Summer 1972 , pp. 95 - 124
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Copyright © 1972 by the University of Texas Press

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