Exploring the line of descent in the intergenerational transmission of domestic property
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1996
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Mullins, Patrick
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Urban Research Program. Research School of Social Science. Australian National University.
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While there has been growing interest in the intergenerational
transmission of domestic property over recent years—and specifically
housing inheritance—the line of descent in this transmission has been
ignored. We do not know whether domestic property goes
disproportionately to the next generation(s) of men, or to the women,
or equally to men and women as the Western bilateral system of descent
would dictate. Using published empirical research and data from a
sample of Brisbane households, this paper tests an argument proffered
by two European sociologists, Delphy and Leonard. They maintain that
domestic property goes disproportionately to the next generation(s) of
men because of the power of patriarchy. However, the Brisbane data
showed that domestic property went roughly equally to the next
generations of men and women, suggesting the presence of a bilateral
system of descent. Conceptual and theoretical implications arising from
this finding, relative to Delphy and Leonard's claim, are examined in
the last part ofthe paper.
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