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Oct 1, 2012 · Siblings are a fixture in the family lives of children and adolescents, and a body of work documents their role in one another’s everyday experiences as companions, confidantes, combatants, and as the focus of social comparisons.
- An Empirical Review of Changes in The Firstborn's Adjustment
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- Evidence From Indonesia
She found that an increase from zero to one sibling has a...
- An Empirical Review of Changes in The Firstborn's Adjustment
- Everyday Practicalities and Routines
- Commuting Between Sibling Groups and Family Regimes
- Materiality Matters
- Emotional Complexities
Inspired by the theoretical points raised above, we propose an approach that examines sibling relationships as a social practice formed through everyday routines and practices. Classifications, hierarchies, privileges, expectations and values are expressed and upheld through repeated acts, routinised bodily movement and arrangements of objects that...
In our interviews with children in ‘long and wide’ sibling groups, we find a special kind of interdependency between those siblings who commute together between parental households. These trips, with all the coordination and practical tasks they involve, seem to become ritualised loci of emotional and embodied experiences (Winther 2015). Travelling...
Sibling relations are embedded in and expressed through materiality: the more children in a household, the greater the number of things likely to be present—some of which being personal belongings, many that are shared or circulated. Rooms are often personal but may also be shared, as are jackets, toys, bikes and beds, or they are handed down from ...
In general, siblingship is described in the interviews as a kind of relation that, ideally, needs no further consideration—an understanding likely supported by the conventional idea that ‘real’ siblingship cannot be broken. Siblings ‘are just there, and they’re nice to have. And you can talk to them and stuff, be with them and you know …’, as one b...
- Eva Gulløv, Eva Gulløv, Ida Wentzel Winther
- 2021
May 8, 2018 · Siblings are family members who are ascribed by birth (full siblings), by law (adopted siblings) or by marriage (half-siblings, step-siblings, and siblings-in-law). Full siblings have two biological parents in common, whereas half-siblings have one biological parent in common.
Sibling ties are some of the most widespread and enduring intimate relationships. Located at the border of kinship and friendship, the sociology of siblings largely centers on childhood and old age, rivalry and social support.
Siblingship is illuminating for sociologists interested in exploring the meaning and experience of relatedness because, in addition to the intensity of emotions at the centre of siblingship in the public imagination, sibling relationships are particularly complicated, changeable and contradictory.
Reviewed by Psychology Today Staff. Sibling relationships are important. While friendships come and go, you’re stuck with your siblings. This relationship is oftentimes one of the longest ...
the complex relationship between siblings and noncognitive development, this study also generally contributes to the sociology of family and inequality. Keywords siblings, family size, cognitive development, sociobehavioral development, resource allocation dynamics
