Kabeer, Naila 
ORCID: 0000-0001-7769-9540
(2001)
Family bargaining.
In: Smelser, Neil J. and Baltes, Paul B., (eds.)
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences.
Elsevier (Firm), Oxford, pp. 5314-5319.
ISBN 9780080430768
Abstract
This article reviews different social science approaches to the analysis of bargaining in the specific context of family-based households. Economic approaches have tended to focus on ‘the household’ and to treat its members as a set of individuals, differentiated by their economic characteristics and genetic endowments. While economic models of bargaining have yielded a number of useful insights into how decisions get made at the household level, they have been limited by their failure to take account of the specific set of social relations which distinguish the household as a social organization from other organizations in a society: the social relations of family and kinship. Despite the structured inequalities often built into household relationships, the fact that members of a household are usually related to each other by blood or marriage means that bargaining within the family tends to draw on relational as well as material resources, on love, affection, and loyalty as well as on the more naked exercise of power through violence, coercion, and command. The article illustrates this distinctive aspect of family bargaining by drawing on the literature on the gender dynamics of household decision-making.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | © 2001 Elsevier Ltd |
| Divisions: | Gender Studies |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Sep 2013 14:25 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 16:45 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/53113 |
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