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An Examination Of The Relationship Between Kindred ConnectedNess And The Riesman Inner-Other Directedness, Judith Eva Wadford
An Examination Of The Relationship Between Kindred ConnectedNess And The Riesman Inner-Other Directedness, Judith Eva Wadford
Masters Theses
The purpose of this study is to investigate the family as a socializing agency from the standpoint of a possible relationship between kindred connectedness and inner-other direction.
The concept of kindred connectedness, developed by Whiteside and used in this study, is defined as the degree to which kin are bound together by mutual assistance, affective support, and commonly held values and norms. Whiteside argues that persons from a close kindred have been socialized to be more sensitive to the expectations of others than persons from a non-close kindred.
There have been numerous attempts to develop empirical measures of the dimensions …