Rural peasant families were more patriarchal than working-class families in the 1930s

Evidence

From the 251 completed questionnaires which were returned, it appeared, with regard to class-specific differences, merely `that rural peasant families represent a more extreme type of patriarchal family than working-class ones’. … The Swiss inquiries were the best conducted, and these were the ones which were later used most in Studies on Authority and the Family. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 560

Categorization

  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 560
  • XREF: connects to: Countryside regions with strongest patriarchalism show 30 percent family incest rates; Male economic migrancy disrupts rather than reinforces patriarchal family structures — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 880; Agrarian production roles determine gender hierarchy within Algerian families (+1 more)

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