Contrary to the view of some academics that the family in America is not declining but just
changing, the thesis of this article is that family decline since 1960 has been extraordinarily�…

Quantitative and qualitative analysis of a large number of autobiographies by working men
who lived through the industrial revolution has demonstrated that there was an upsurge in�…

IThas become obligatory for writing about the family in antiquity to begin with an attempt to
complicate the notion of family, and by now the fact that the ancient household included�…

This article discusses the 'Mediterranean model'of household formation proposed by Laslett
and others in the early 1980s and argues that the notion of a Mediterranean culture area has�…

I use a new data source, the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, to trace race
differences in family structure between 1880 and 1980. Analysis confirms recent findings�…

This article scrutinizes the recently postulated link between the European Marriage Pattern
(EMP) and economic success. Multivariate analysis of 4,705 demographic observations�…

The purpose of this article is to develop a model of family business that accounts for the
unique characteristics and diversity of family businesses and addresses the dynamics�…

This article discusses the organizational forces common to the family business from the
perspective of institutional theory. Both “old” and “new” institutionalism add useful�…

1 I will use the term 'living arrangement'or 'coresidential arrangements' interchangeably to
refer to the household structure of the elderly. When living with at least one child (or other�…

Eastern Europe How people in the past used and valued kinship in their daily lives is one of
the most important and most elusive matters in contemporary social history. The largest�…