Many sociologists believe social mobility to be detrimental to extended family relations. An empirical examination of the relations between occupational mobility and four dimensions of family cohesion for a sample of married women supports this view. Furthermore, this is part of a broader pattern of general social isolation.
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Robert P. Stuckert (1963) studied this question.
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