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Market integration reduces kin density in women’s ego-networks in rural Poland
It is widely assumed that as populations become more market integrated the ‘inner circles’ of people’s social networks become less densely connected and family-oriented. This ‘loosening’ of kin networks may fundamentally alter the social dynamics of reproduction, facilitating demographic transitions...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6959218/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31937789 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14158-2 |
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description | It is widely assumed that as populations become more market integrated the ‘inner circles’ of people’s social networks become less densely connected and family-oriented. This ‘loosening’ of kin networks may fundamentally alter the social dynamics of reproduction, facilitating demographic transitions to low fertility. Few data exist to test this hypothesis. Previous research in urbanized populations has not explicitly measured kin density in ego-networks, nor assessed how market integration influences network structure at different levels of aggregation. Here I analyze the ego-networks of ~2000 women in 22 rural Polish communities transitioning from subsistence farming to market-dependence. I compare how ego-network size, density and kin density co-vary with household and community-level market integration. Market integration is associated with less kin-dense networks, but not necessarily less dense ones, and is unrelated to network size. Declining kin density during economic transitions may be a critical mechanism for the broader cultural transmission of low fertility values. |
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spelling | pubmed-69592182020-01-15 Market integration reduces kin density in women’s ego-networks in rural Poland Colleran, Heidi Nat Commun Article It is widely assumed that as populations become more market integrated the ‘inner circles’ of people’s social networks become less densely connected and family-oriented. This ‘loosening’ of kin networks may fundamentally alter the social dynamics of reproduction, facilitating demographic transitions to low fertility. Few data exist to test this hypothesis. Previous research in urbanized populations has not explicitly measured kin density in ego-networks, nor assessed how market integration influences network structure at different levels of aggregation. Here I analyze the ego-networks of ~2000 women in 22 rural Polish communities transitioning from subsistence farming to market-dependence. I compare how ego-network size, density and kin density co-vary with household and community-level market integration. Market integration is associated with less kin-dense networks, but not necessarily less dense ones, and is unrelated to network size. Declining kin density during economic transitions may be a critical mechanism for the broader cultural transmission of low fertility values. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-01-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6959218/ /pubmed/31937789 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14158-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Colleran, Heidi Market integration reduces kin density in women’s ego-networks in rural Poland |
title | Market integration reduces kin density in women’s ego-networks in rural Poland |
title_full | Market integration reduces kin density in women’s ego-networks in rural Poland |
title_fullStr | Market integration reduces kin density in women’s ego-networks in rural Poland |
title_full_unstemmed | Market integration reduces kin density in women’s ego-networks in rural Poland |
title_short | Market integration reduces kin density in women’s ego-networks in rural Poland |
title_sort | market integration reduces kin density in women’s ego-networks in rural poland |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6959218/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31937789 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14158-2 |
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