| 单词 | stem family |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstem family stem family n. [translating French famille-souche (F. le Play La Réforme Sociale en France (1866) I. iii. 249)] Sociology a family unit in which property descends to a married son who remains within the household, other (esp. married) children achieving independence on receipt of an inheritance. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > stock, race, or family > [noun] > in which property descends to a married son stem family1936 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > stock, race, or family > [adjective] > to a stem family stem family1936 society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > [noun] > hereditary > right of married son remaining in household stem family1936 society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > [adjective] > resting on hereditary right > stem family stem family1936 1936 C. C. Zimmerman & M. E. Frampton Family & Society vii. 125 The stem-family..unites one married child to the paternal household, and supplies all the other offspring in a ‘state of independence [with a dowry] which the patriarchal family does not give them’. 1947 P. H. Landis Your Marriage & Family Living i. 5 The stem family is about halfway between the great family of historic rural societies and the small, individualistic family of urban industrial societies. 1977 P. Laslett Family Life Earlier Generations v. 211 In certain eighteenth-century areas of Austria and Germany, where a stem family arrangement prevailed..the old were allotted a familial situation which gave to retirement an institutional form. < as lemmas |
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