The family web: Multigenerational class persistence in elite populations

IF 3.2 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Socio-Economic Review Pub Date : 2023-06-23 DOI:10.1093/ser/mwad033

Shay O’Brien

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Abstract

This article introduces the first-ever full kinship network of an upper-class population in a US city (n = 12 273). Multigenerational class transmission models tend to conceptualize families as father–son chains, especially for the upper class, but I systematically include women, finding that nearly 70% of Dallas high society from 1895 to 1945 was related in a single web encompassing most of the city’s wealthy, powerful, and high-status people. Because elites did not always have sons, nearly three times more families persisted over the 50-year period than patrilineal measures would suggest. Almost all persistent families connected to the web, and they connected more deeply than non-persistent families. Three case studies demonstrate that women and kin ties beyond the patrilineage frequently drove elite family persistence. Upper-class populations are best understood not as collections of distinct dynasties that live or die with the success of sons, but as complex, durable family webs.

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家庭网络：精英群体中多代阶级的持久性

本文介绍了美国城市中第一个上层阶级人口的完整亲属网络(n = 12273)。多代阶级传递模型倾向于将家庭概念化为父子链，尤其是对上层阶级而言，但我系统地将女性纳入其中，发现从1895年到1945年，达拉斯上流社会近70%的人都与一个包含了该市大多数富人、权贵和高地位人士的网络有关。由于精英阶层并不总是有儿子，在50年的时间里，持续存在的家庭数量几乎是父系制度测算结果的三倍。几乎所有的持久性家庭都与网络相连，而且它们比非持久性家庭联系得更紧密。三个案例研究表明，女性和父系以外的亲属关系经常推动精英家族的坚持。对上层阶级人口最好的理解不是不同王朝的集合，这些王朝的生死取决于儿子的成功，而是复杂而持久的家庭网络。

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