Estamentos - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 15:08:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Estamentos - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Shaping the Demographic Parameters of the Differentiated Household in a North Atlantic Model (1584-1670) https://historylab.es/shaping-the-demographic-parameters-of-the-differentiated-household-in-a-north-atlantic-model-1584-1670/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shaping-the-demographic-parameters-of-the-differentiated-household-in-a-north-atlantic-model-1584-1670 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:40 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/configuracion-de-los-parametros-demograficos-del-hogar-diferenciado-en-un-modelo-noratlantico-1584-1670/ Resource that deals with the structural model of families in the Galician region of Baixo Minho to see the demographic sociology of households according to their social status

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]]> Rural society in south-western Galicia, in the Bajo Miño region, was part of the North Atlantic demographic system. The study of the parish of San Martín de Caldelas, between 1584 and 1670, shows us the configuration of households according to their economic, material and status level within society: upper, middle and lower families. A first analysis reveals the predominance in number of the lower, more humble families. In these families, the average number of children per family was lower than in the middle and upper families, being 5.79, 7.67 and 6.6 respectively. Another significant difference is the age of entry into marriage, both for women and men, with the poorer families showing a tendency to delay entry due to a late exit from the family, while the upper families had a younger age of marriage for the male than the others. This age difference had an impact on the years of actual fertility, being higher in the more privileged families. The wide variety of information provided by the author helps us to understand the demographic dynamics of families; a structural issue for the analysis and explanation of the society of the Ancien Régime.

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]]> Family strategies of social groups. The case of Caldelas, Galicia (17th century) https://historylab.es/family-strategies-of-social-groups-the-case-of-caldelas-galicia-17th-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=family-strategies-of-social-groups-the-case-of-caldelas-galicia-17th-century Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:40 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/estrategias-familiares-de-los-grupos-sociales-el-caso-de-caldelas-galicia-siglo-xvii/ Table of social mobility at the end of the 17th century in Caldelas (Galicia) according to the marriage strategies of the different social groups

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]]> The resource presents marriage strategies and social mobility in the Bajo Miño de Calderas region (Galicia) at the end of the 17th century. The author categorises family dynamics according to the social group to which the contracting members belonged. In this way, the families of the local elite show the most common techniques: marriage alliances linked to consanguinity, strong reproductive capacity and social success. Of the 23 elite families studied, 47% continued to maintain middle or higher status, although a significant number of offspring descended to lower families, 43%, reflecting downward social mobility. For their part, middle families followed the same trends as the upper families, albeit mitigating the impact of upward social destination. These two groups of the affluent fed off each other in social endogamy. Upward mobility was achieved by linking into middle-upper alliances; however, middle-lower marriages were a constant half of social reproduction. Lower families tended to maintain their stratum through social inbreeding relationships, with few but existing examples of upward mobility.

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