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01.06.2015 | ARTICLES

You Moved Up, Did You Forget Us?: The Influence of African American Intra-familial Social Mobility on Extended Family Relationships

verfasst von: Pearl E. Stewart

Erschienen in: Journal of African American Studies | Ausgabe 2/2015

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Abstract

This study explored the extent to which changes in socioeconomic status influenced the willingness or ability of extended family members to adhere to family scripts regarding interaction and resource sharing. Ethnographic methodology was utilized to examine the lived experience of the members of one large, extended African American family with its roots in a rural area of North Carolina. The results suggest that interaction is maintained despite changes in socioeconomic status among family members but that the interaction is transformed as one rises in socioeconomic status. The results also suggest that certain levels of ambiguous loss may occur as a result of the changing family relationships.

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Metadaten
Titel
You Moved Up, Did You Forget Us?: The Influence of African American Intra-familial Social Mobility on Extended Family Relationships
verfasst von
Pearl E. Stewart
Publikationsdatum
01.06.2015
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Journal of African American Studies / Ausgabe 2/2015
Print ISSN: 1559-1646
Elektronische ISSN: 1936-4741
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12111-015-9300-6

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