Kinship Networks and Stratification

Twenty-first century stratification scholars have worked diligently to expand our measures of family beyond fathers and sons, investigating the role of grandparents, mothers, cousins, siblings, and other kin in adult child outcomes. At the same time, complex kinship network data has become increasingly available and analyzable at scale. This session invites papers that draw on kinship networks to better understand stratification dynamics, broadly defined. Methodological, theoretical, and/or empirical approaches are all welcome.