Market integration reduces kin density in women's ego-networks in rural Poland.

ABSTRACT: 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 ma

SUBMITTER: Colleran H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6959218 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature