Douglas R. White and Michael Houseman For special issue of l’Homme 2013 Regardless of now marriage is locally defined, most people in most places marry (and/or have children with) people who are neither too close (immediate family members) nor overly distant (total strangers). As a result, many members of a given community are linked to each other by multiple direct or indirect ties of consangu...

Based on the highly mediatized arrival of migrants and refugees in Greece, over last decades, this paper focuses media technologies consumption Albanian Syrian students, analyzes way family ties are experienced at a distance. Civil wars, anti-regime protests, economic difficulties climate change have forced large numbers people to escape from their countries, live as or displaced homeland remai...

We analyse the relationship between female directors and payout policy for a sample of non-financial Spanish listed firms. Based on critical mass theory, we find an inverted-U shaped relationship. For low levels representation in board, women increase dividends order to reduce agency conflicts, improve reputation or legitimacy. However, after inflection point, characteristics traditionally asso...

Generation Z has faced various transformations in life due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This study analyzes family traditions, parent-child ties, and happiness during pandemic based on gender. used a quantitative approach with non-probability voluntary sampling method involving 42 men 130 women of generation who are college students domiciled Special Region Yogyakarta. Data were analyzed using des...