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Urban Kinships

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: The social sciences were long dominated by the notion that cities are places where kinship ties are weakened. Since the seminal works of Emile Durkheim (1892) and Frederic Le Play (1884), followed by the theories of Talcott Parsons (Parsons and Bales 1955), a connection has been made between urbanization, the emergence of the nuclear family and the modernization of society. Sociologists of the Chicago School thus described the contemporary city as a place of individual emancipation and elect...

Source: Articulo – revue de sciences humaines

DOI: 10.4000/articulo.4337

Authors: Thomas Pfirsch, Consuelo Araos

Institutions: UMR Géographie-cités, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Language: English

Topic: Urban and sociocultural dynamics

Subfield: Urban Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2995355561

FWCI: 0.703

Cites: 33

Cited by: 6

Related to: 10