topic 6

• kinship - web of social relationship
• affinity - human kinship through marriage
• descent - relationships arrive in one's group in origin

  
  

  also refers to social groups, categories, genealogy
• unilineal - one gender only
• martilineal descent - mother's group at birth and stay members throughout life
• patrilineal descent - father's group automatically at birth
• ambilineal - both mother and father's group
• kinship by marriage - legal contract between spouses, center of kinship system
• endogamy - one should marry in clan
• exogamy - one can marry outside one's clan or ethnic group
• monogamy - one spouse at a time or entire lifetime
• polygamy - multiple marriage
• polygyny - man having multiple partners
• polygamy - women having multiple men partners
• patrilocal residence - wife lives on near husband's blood relatives
• neolical residence - couple have the freedom to live seperately, and independently to their own respective families
• bilocal residence - couple's choice to stay either groom or bride's parents
• matrilocal residence - husband to live with wife's relatives
• functions of the family:

  • regulates sexual behavior and unit of reproduction
  • biological maintenance
  • chief agency of socializing the child
  • gives members status
  • important mechanism for social control
  • economic functions, especially in simple societies
• nuclear family - basic form, married couple and biological / adopted child
• extended family - includes other members of kinship
• reconstituted family - mixed family

  • seperated - living apart
  • transnational - families that live some or most of the time seperated
• patriachal - eldest male
• matriachal - mother
• egalitarian - husband & wife more or less equal amount of degree / authority
• matricentric - prolonged absence
• political dynasty - repeated and re-elected family members or relatives to office local / national government