Publications

Publication details [#3535]

Friedrich, Paul. 1966. The linguistic reflex of social change: From Tsarist to Soviet Russian kinship. Sociological Inquiry 36 (2) : 159–184.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

kinship terminology | social context

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/soin

Annotation

Outline of the main patterns of behavior and of terminology in nineteenth-century Russian kinship, followed by a description of how the social system altered between 1850 and 1950 and how and why these changes triggered changes in the components underlying the terminology as well as in the terminology itself.

Reprints

Friedrich, Paul. 1979. In Friedrich, Paul, ed. Language, context, and the imagination. Selected and introduced by Anwar S. Dil. Stanford UP. pp. 168–200.