This personality has been reared in a culture of "familism" where the family is considered extended, patriarchal, patrilineal, patrilocal, endogamous, and occasionally polygynous.

75) In her study of the staff of the Chamber of Accounts of Lille, Leclercq found that officials reinforced their common interests by forming endogamous kinship ties.

Ballard's lucid exposition on shifting effects of transnational migration between Britain and Mirpur District, Pakistan, explores the ebbs and flows of attachment and investment by family members, whether in supporting those at home, or in investing in flashy but empty houses, monuments to success in competition between endogamous biraderi descent groups.