Understanding black households: the problem
| dc.contributor.author | Russell, Margo | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-19T16:24:47Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-05-19T16:24:47Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2003 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-05-19T16:23:08Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Households can be taken for granted in the West because the nuclear family system with its bilateral descent ensures a fairly standard pattern of coresidence, with predictable patterns of pooling resources. In contemporary southern Africa, the tradition of patrilineal descent in black families entails a much wider set of options for co-residence as relatives disperse to make a living in the new global economy. The agnatic idiom continues to give coherence to volatile, contingent black households. The paper traces the distinctive historical roots of Western and African households and argues against the assumption that black South Africans are engaged in some sort of transition to a Western pattern. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Russell, M. (2003). Understanding black households: the problem. <i>Social Dynamics</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19735 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Russell, Margo "Understanding black households: the problem." <i>Social Dynamics</i> (2003) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19735 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Russell, M. (2003). Understanding black households: the problem. Social Dynamics, 29(2), 5-47. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0253-3952 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Russell, Margo AB - Households can be taken for granted in the West because the nuclear family system with its bilateral descent ensures a fairly standard pattern of coresidence, with predictable patterns of pooling resources. In contemporary southern Africa, the tradition of patrilineal descent in black families entails a much wider set of options for co-residence as relatives disperse to make a living in the new global economy. The agnatic idiom continues to give coherence to volatile, contingent black households. The paper traces the distinctive historical roots of Western and African households and argues against the assumption that black South Africans are engaged in some sort of transition to a Western pattern. DA - 2003 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Social Dynamics LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2003 SM - 0253-3952 T1 - Understanding black households: the problem TI - Understanding black households: the problem UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19735 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19735 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02533950308628674 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Russell M. Understanding black households: the problem. Social Dynamics. 2003; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19735. | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | Social Dynamics | en_ZA |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsdy20/current | |
| dc.subject.other | Black households | |
| dc.title | Understanding black households: the problem | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.filetype | Image | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Article | en_ZA |