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After World War II, Polish nobility was commonly considered an obsolete social group because of the post-1945 confiscation of their properties and the decline of their legal and political privileges. From a formal point of view, the Polish nobility had ceased to exist. However, this group did not simply vanish. For this reason, we should not speak of the disintegration of the former noble milieu but rather its reorganization. To expand deliberation on these "reorganization strategies" with the use of appropriate sociological tools, this article analyzes major social actors in contemporary Poland who use their noble legacies in their collective identity-building practices.

Intro -- Dedication -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION -- The Struggle for Black Community Development in Holmes County, Mississippi: Internal Efforts, External Support, and the Role of Science -- SECTION TWO: THE EXTENDED FAMILY IN HOLMES COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI AND ITS OUTLIERS -- The Extended Family Among Black Holmes Countians: A Personal Note -- The Black Extended Family: A Basic Rural Institution and a Mechanism of Urban Adaptation -- Community Reactions and Appraisals: The Extended Family as a Social Core -- SECTION THREE: IS THERE A NATIONAL PATTERN IN THE UNITED STATES? -- Black Families in the United States: An Overview of Current Ideologies and Research -- Continuities and Variations in Black Family Structure -- The "Clan": Case Study of a Black Extended Family in Chicago -- Kinship and Residential Propinquity in Black New Orleans: The Wesleys -- Kinship and Friendship in Black Los Angeles: A Study of Migrants from Texas -- Familialism in Texas: A Texan View -- Texas Indeed Is Different: Some Historical and Demographic Observations -- The Black Extended Family in the United States: Some Research Suggestions -- SECTION FOUR: AFRO-AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES ON THE EXTENDED FAMILY -- Persistence, Borrowing, and Adaptive Changes in Black Kinship Systems: Some Issues and Their Significance -- Ticouloute and His Kinfolk: The Study of a Haitian Extended Family -- Delegation of Parental Roles in West Africa and the West Indies -- SECTION FIVE: IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY -- Black Institutions and Potential Social Change in the United States -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.

AbstractThis paper argues that researchers may be misgauging family resources by focusing narrowly on the nuclear family when measuring these resources. While social scientists have long been interested in the ways that families' material resources affect their ability to provide for their offspring, the traditional measures of family resources have emphasized parents' income and parents' wealth, although the interest in the latter is relatively new (Conley 2009 [1999]; Haveman et al., 2001; Oliver and Shapiro, 2006 [1995]). This paper attempts to shift the focus to the extended family, and it uses data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the Child Development Supplement (CDS) to paint a portrait of the volume of wealth that is available in the grandparent generation of a child's family tree. After theorizing about the potential ways that grandparent wealth can affect children's life chances, the research shows that there are substantial differences in extended-family wealth by race. The Black/White wealth ratio is on the order of 0.11 in the grandparent generation at the median, which indicates that the typical Black child has grandparents with only about eleven cents of wealth for every dollar that the grandparents of the typical White child possess. Some implications of this wealth gap for children and society are discussed.