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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 …