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

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  • Heidi Colleran

    (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

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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 market integration. Market integration is associated with less kin-dense networks, but not necessarily less dense ones, and is unrelated to network size. Declining kin density during economic transitions may be a critical mechanism for the broader cultural transmission of low fertility values.

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  • Heidi Colleran, 2020. "Market integration reduces kin density in women’s ego-networks in rural Poland," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 11(1), pages 1-9, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:11:y:2020:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-019-14158-2
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-14158-2
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    1. Joseph V. Hackman & Karen L. Kramer, 2021. "Kin Ties and Market Integration in a Yucatec Mayan Village," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 10(6), pages 1-17, June.
    2. Simpson, Cohen R., 2022. "Social support and network formation in a small-scale horticulturalist population," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 116694, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    3. Mariana K. Barcho & Olga V. Otto & Hafis Ahmed oglu Hajiyev & Vadim O. Samusenkov & Lyudmila N. Korshunova & Natalia O. Vikhrova & Nikolay N. Nikulin, 2020. "Basic directions for forming perspective forms of agricultural integration," Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, VsI Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, vol. 8(1), pages 960-971, September.

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