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Social Structure and Interpersonal Relations in Navanogal (Spain) 1
Author(s) -
BRANDES STANLEY H.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1973.75.3.02a00080
Subject(s) - distrust , ambivalence , interpersonal relationship , interpersonal ties , social relation , interpersonal communication , order (exchange) , social order , sociology , political science , social psychology , business , psychology , law , finance , politics
This paper explores the ambivalent quality of interpersonal relations in a small Castilian community. For purposes of economic and psychological security, villagers establish a wide network of social ties outside the nuclear family. Yet they distrust and resent those with whom they must affiliate. In order to maintain successful social and economic ties, then, they resort to a series of standardized devices which operate as a lubricant to social relations.