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Hello, kinship. https://twitter.com/samfriedmansoc/status/1351076323989594116
There are resonances w post-1945 social mobility in Iloilo, Philippines, the topic of my current book project. Many of those I worked w hv family stories that emphasise earlier generations' poverty & suffering, and wc minimise the imp of capitals (see https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/comparative-studies-in-society-and-history/article/an-inheritance-that-cannot-be-stolen-schooling-kinship-and-personhood-in-post1945-central-philippines/2EC46C60B458324158FA632D5E29F432)
Yet, notions of kinship & personhood are always plural, so the intergenerational aspect of class/family is inseparable from personal striving, sibling ties, and marriage -- there are diff reasons behind this, incl family size, state policies, colonial legacies, religion
Most of the stories that I heard were shared by people in their (late) adulthood looking back at their, and their (grand)parents’, lives. So I’ve a limited sense of how their identification w these stories was built up, and changed, over time.
There are emerging differences, too, with younger generations less likely to identify w shared family stories of class origins. They also have to contend w the consequences of ‘success’ (see https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9655.13250).
Vertical kinship ties are emphasised in British kinship, but I wonder how these ties coexist w other relations, and with what implications for stories of class origins and mobility? How does identification w these stories shift across the life course, as well as generations?
Thanks for your article @SamFriedmanSoc. Will def cite it in future work!
