This article introduces the first-ever full kinship network of an upper-class population in a US city (n = 12 273). Multigenerational class transmission models tend to conceptualize families as father–son chains, especially for the upper class, but I systematically include women, finding that nearly 70% of Dallas high society from 1895 to 1945 was related in a single web encompassing most of the city’s wealthy, powerful, and high-status people. Because elites did not always have sons, nearly three times more families persisted over the 50-year period than patrilineal measures would suggest. Almost all persistent families connected to the web, and they connected more deeply than non-persistent families. Three case studies demonstrate that women and kin ties beyond the patrilineage frequently drove elite family persistence. Upper-class populations are best understood not as collections of distinct dynasties that live or die with the success of sons, but as complex, durable family webs.

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家庭网络：精英群体中的多代阶级持续存在

本文介绍了美国城市中第一个上层阶级人口的完整亲属关系网络（n = 12 273）。多代阶级传播模型倾向于将家庭概念化为父子链，特别是对于上层阶级来说，但我系统地包括了女性，发现从 1895 年到 1945 年，达拉斯上流社会近 70% 的人在一个涵盖该市大部分地区的单一网络中相互关联。富有、有权、地位高的人。由于精英阶层并不总是有儿子，因此在 50 年期间持续存在的家庭数量几乎是父系测量所显示的数量的三倍。几乎所有持久家庭都连接到网络，而且他们比非持久家庭连接得更深入。三个案例研究表明，女性和父系以外的亲属关系经常推动精英家庭的持续存在。