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Theorising Family Meanings
Good social research is usually informed by theory. In this chapter, Gwenzi draws from both classical and contemporary sociological theories of...
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Western (Business) Family Models in Historical Change: A Process–Sociological Sketch
Nostalgic illusions of reality still obscure a sober view of (business) family models in Western societies and sciences: family is often seen as...
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Taking a Test Drive?: Implicit Theories Sexual Compatibility
Implicit Theories of Relationships address assumptions about the nature of romantic relationships, whether they are destined to succeed or grow over...
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Conspiracy Theories
Current thinking about conspiracy theories is dominated by epistemological and psychological approaches. The former see the study of conspiracy...
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Social Policies and Theories on Quality of Life under COVID-19: In Search of the Missing Links
COVID-19 has generated many negative impacts on the family, including impaired psychological well-being of family members (parents and children) and...
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The Business Family as a Family of Its Own Kind in the Process of Social Change: Challenges and Opportunities Using the Example of Female Succession
The attempt to understand the research field of family businesses almost automatically leads one’s gaze to the business family as the core. Like a...
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Computing grounded theory: a quantitative method to develop theories
The inductive logic of grounded theory and the principle of avoiding theoretical preconceptions are significantly different from the deductive logic...
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Being Family in Times of the Pandemic
Many debates surrounding the Corona pandemic have always focused on the economic implications. Social implications were discussed on the basis of...
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Concepts and Theories of Friendship
In this chapter, we discuss different approaches to the concept of friendships. We begin with the standard story of Aristotle’s virtue friendships as...
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Even Now Women Focus on Family, Men on Work: An Analysis of Employment, Marital, and Reproductive Life-Course Typologies in Relation to Change in Health-Related Quality of Life
To a large extent health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is a product of life-course experiences. Therefore, we examined employment, marital, and...
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What Are We Fighting For? Lay Theories About the Goals and Motivations of Anti-Racism Activism
Social psychology has primarily focused on activism as action toward social change; little is known about how laypeople think about activism. The...
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Generation and Gender Differences in Family Businesses: A New Psychological Perspective
Family businesses (FBs) are a particular type of organization where both family and business dimensions intertwine. In FB literature, family firms...
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In Pursuit of Contemporary Chinese Social Theories
My hometown is located in a village in Longhui, Shaoyang, Hunan Province. My father is the youngest of four brothers. Because his family was not too...
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Models of Family Leisure Time-Use: Implications for Family Interaction, Stress, and Resilience
Since there is a close relationship between the quality of family life and how individuals and families spend their discretionary time, it is...
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The Dynastic Extended Family: A Sketch of a Specific Type of Business Family
In contrast to the classic type of nuclear family in Western society, business families are different from the patterns of erosion of kinship...
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Impact of Social Change on Nigeria’s Cultural and Medical Practices
Social change is constant worldwide. Social change is currently a global phenomenon that impacts on multitude of cultures. In this chapter, we will...
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In-between metropolitan cities and urban theories: a case of small town Dharamshala
The scholarship and discussion on urbanization and urbanism are restricted to the exploration of a few metropolitans and global cities. In this way,...
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Parallel trajectories and theorizations of religion and family in modernity: Toward an institutional logics perspective
Scholars theorize the effect of modernization on religious and familial institutions in a parallel way. Some argue that both are irreversibly in...
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Discussions in the Family
Here we are forced to find ways how a reasonably peaceful coexistence is possible despite different positions. If a change of views does not seem...
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Family in Southern Africa
Gwenzi charts the historical development of family in Southern Africa, the geographical context in which the study on family meanings is located....