Family ties: the multilevel effects of households and kinship on the networks of individuals.

ABSTRACT: Among social mammals, humans uniquely organize themselves into communities of households that are centred around enduring, predominantly monogamous unions of men and women. As a consequence of this social organization, individuals maintain social relationships both within and across households, and potentially there is conflict among household members about which social ties to prioritize or de-emphasize. Extending the logic of structural balance theory, I predict that there will be considerable overlap in the social networks of individual household members, resulting in a pattern of group-level reciprocity. To test this prediction, I advance the Group-Structured Social Relations Model, a generalized linear mixed model that tests for group-level effects in the inter-household social networ

SUBMITTER: Koster J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5936935 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature