Social support networks in urban Shanghai |
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| Institution: | 1. Departamento de Matemática, IFNMG, 39560-000 Salinas, MG, Brazil;2. FEC-Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 13083-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil;3. IMECC-Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 13083-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil;1. Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics, Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov MSU, Leninskye Gory 1, Moscow 119234, Russia;2. Department of Meteorology and Climatology, Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov MSU, Leninskye Gory 1, Moscow 119234, Russia;1. Graduate School of Social Work, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Boston, Massachusetts;2. Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts;3. Bureau of Health Information,, Statistics, Research, and Evaluation, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts;4. Department of Sociology, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon;1. Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, Finland;2. The Finnish Forest Research Institute, P.O. Box 18, FI-01301 Vantaa, Finland;1. College of Urban Construction and Environmental Engineering, Chongqing University, China;2. School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, RMIT University, Australia;1. Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland, Long Pocket Precinct, 80 Meiers Rd, Building C, Indooroopilly, Brisbane, QLD 4068, Australia;2. Youth Research Centre, The University of Melbourne, 100 Leicester St, Carlton, Parkville, VIC 3053, Australia |
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| Abstract: | The present paper examines the composition of social support network in urban Shanghai. Spouse/partner and parent/parent-in-law are found to provide diffuse support, serving both instrumental and emotional functions. Compared to kin ties, support from coworkers are likely to be more specialized and secondary. These findings are inconsistent with earlier data collected by Ruan and her associates in Tianjin. They observe that work-related ties are more prevalent than kin ties in the Chinese support networks and are more likely to be preferred helpers for a variety of problems. Moreover, the roles of family ties (parent, child, and sibling) tend to be peripheral and highly specialized, mainly, in money issues. Differences in findings from the two cities are attributed partly to the different measures of social support and partly to the different social structures related to marketization. |
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