Family comes first: Men's and women's personal networks in Tehran
β Scribed by Susan Bastani
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 201 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0378-8733
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β¦ Synopsis
This paper examines the characteristics of middle class Tehranis' networks, based upon a survey of 318 individuals from the 159 households. The results show that women and men have similar-size networks. However, their networks differ substantially in gender composition, with each having almost two-thirds of network members of their own gender. Men's and women's networks contain a large proportion of kin overall. Most ties tend to be with immediate kin: children, parents and siblings. An immediate kin is usually the socially closest member of a network. Apart from voluntary factors, the importance of kinship ties in men's and women's networks may be the result of the macro-structural conditions under which patterns of social relationships take place.
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