Maintenance of Family Networks: Centrality of Peripheral Communication

Families are social units that expand in time (across generations) and space (as a geographically distributed substructures of wider kinship networks). Understanding of intergenerational family relations thus requires conceptualization of communication processes that take place within a small collec...

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Published in:Psychological Studies
Main Authors: MARSICO, Giuseppina, Chaudhary, Nandita, Valsiner, Jaan, Lyberth, Maliina
Other Authors: Marsico, Giuseppina
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2015
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spelling ftunisalernoiris:oai:www.iris.unisa.it:11386/4644203 2024-02-11T10:04:23+01:00 Maintenance of Family Networks: Centrality of Peripheral Communication MARSICO, Giuseppina Chaudhary, Nandita Valsiner, Jaan Lyberth, Maliina Marsico, Giuseppina Chaudhary, Nandita Valsiner, Jaan Lyberth, Maliina 2015 http://hdl.handle.net/11386/4644203 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12646-015-0308-8 eng eng firstpage:185 lastpage:192 numberofpages:8 journal:PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES http://hdl.handle.net/11386/4644203 doi:10.1007/s12646-015-0308-8 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-84943264026 Peripheral communication . Family networks . Inter-generational relationships . Communication strategies info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2015 ftunisalernoiris https://doi.org/10.1007/s12646-015-0308-8 2024-01-24T17:41:09Z Families are social units that expand in time (across generations) and space (as a geographically distributed substructures of wider kinship networks). Understanding of intergenerational family relations thus requires conceptualization of communication processes that take place within a small collective of persons linked with one another by a flexible social network. Within such networks, Peripheral Communication Patterns set the stage for direct everyday life activities within the family context. Peripheral Communication Patterns are conditions where one family network member (A) communicates manifestly with another member (B) with the aim of bringing the communicative message to the third member (C) who is present but is not explicitly designated as the manifest addressee of the intended message. Inclusion of physically non-present members of the family network (elders living elsewhere, deceased relatives, ancestors’ spirits, etc.) in efforts that use Peripheral Communication Patterns creates a highly redundant social context for human development over life course which is the basis for family members’ resilience during critical life events. Examples from the social contexts of Greenland, Italy and India will be analyzed to arrive at a general model of the role of peripheral communication as the core of intergenerational value transfer processes. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland EleA@Unisa (Università degli Studi di Salerno) Greenland Psychological Studies 60 2 185 192
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Chaudhary, Nandita
Valsiner, Jaan
Lyberth, Maliina
Maintenance of Family Networks: Centrality of Peripheral Communication
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description Families are social units that expand in time (across generations) and space (as a geographically distributed substructures of wider kinship networks). Understanding of intergenerational family relations thus requires conceptualization of communication processes that take place within a small collective of persons linked with one another by a flexible social network. Within such networks, Peripheral Communication Patterns set the stage for direct everyday life activities within the family context. Peripheral Communication Patterns are conditions where one family network member (A) communicates manifestly with another member (B) with the aim of bringing the communicative message to the third member (C) who is present but is not explicitly designated as the manifest addressee of the intended message. Inclusion of physically non-present members of the family network (elders living elsewhere, deceased relatives, ancestors’ spirits, etc.) in efforts that use Peripheral Communication Patterns creates a highly redundant social context for human development over life course which is the basis for family members’ resilience during critical life events. Examples from the social contexts of Greenland, Italy and India will be analyzed to arrive at a general model of the role of peripheral communication as the core of intergenerational value transfer processes.
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Chaudhary, Nandita
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Chaudhary, Nandita
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title Maintenance of Family Networks: Centrality of Peripheral Communication
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