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• Kinship -  is the socially recognized   relationships between people in a culture, who are either held to be biologically related or given the status of relatives by marriage, adoption, or other rituals. 
• Annulment - is a legal procedure that cancels a marriage. An annulled marriage is erased from a legal perspective, and it declares that the marriage was never valid.
• Divorce -  also known as dissolution of marriage, is the process of terminating a marriage. Reasons for divorce vary, from sexual incompatibility or lack of independence for one or both spouses to a personality clash.
• Kinship and Social Network - Kinship is a universal phenomenon that is recognized by all cultures. Kinship establishes relationships between individual and groups. These relationships may be based on marriage and reproduction. Social network is a sociological concept for a social relation between network elements that interact and which are particular individuals.
• Social Organization - for any community is composed of different types of social relationship for different groups in the community which are needed for different purposes. The social groups to which people belong are the family and the kinship etc. 
• Patriarchal -  A group in which the father or eldest male is recognized as the head of the family, kinship group, or tribe.
• Matriarchal -  A group in which the mother or eldest female is recognized as the head of the family, kinship group, or tribe.
• Equalitarian -  Equal sharing of practical responsibilities and decision making by men and women
• Patrilocal - The married couple is required to live with the family or near the residence of the parents of the groom.
• Matrilocal - The married couple is required to live with the family or near the residence of the parents of the bride.
• Bilocal - The newlywed has the freedom to select where to live (either with or near the parents of the groom or bride). 
• Neolocal- The newlywed can decide independently where to live.
• Avunlocal - The newlywed should live or near the maternal uncle of the groom.
• Kinship


  The socially recognized relationships between people in a culture, who are either held to be biologically related or given the status of relatives by marriage, adoption, or other rituals
• Annulment


  A legal procedure that cancels a marriage. An annulled marriage is erased from a legal perspective, and it declares that the marriage was never valid
• Divorce


  Also known as dissolution of marriage, is the process of terminating a marriage. Reasons for divorce vary, from sexual incompatibility or lack of independence for one or both spouses to a personality clash
• Kinship


  • It is a universal phenomenon that is recognized by all cultures
  • Kinship establishes relationships between individual and groups
  • These relationships may be based on marriage and reproduction
• Social network


  A sociological concept for a social relation between network elements that interact and which are particular individuals
• Social organization


  • Composed of different types of social relationship for different groups in the community which are needed for different purposes
  • The social groups to which people belong are the family and the kinship etc.
• Characteristics of kinship

  • The extent to which genealogical and affinal relationships are recognized for social purposes
  • The ways in which relatives so recognized are classified or grouped in social categories
  • The particular customs by which the behavior of these relatives is regulated in daily life
  • The various rights and obligation which are mediated through kinship
  • The linguistic form which are used to denote the various categories of kin
• Bases of kinship

  • Blood relationship (Consanguineal)
  • Marriage (Affinal)
• Degree of kinship

  • Primary kin (Husband and wife, Father and son, Father and daughter, Mother and son, Mother and daughter, Brother and sister)
  • Secondary kin (Father's brother, Sister's husband)
  • Tertiary kin (Secondary kin of our primary kin or primary kin of our secondary kin)
• Relationship according to descent

  • Patrilineal descent (A lineage which is traced through males)
  • Matrilineal descent (A lineage which is traced through females)
  • Bilateral descent (A method of tracing the lineage of children equally through ancestors of both mother and father)
• Relationship according to authority


  • Patriarchal (A group in which the father or eldest male is recognized as the head of the family, kinship group, or tribe)
  • Matriarchal (A group in which the mother or eldest female is recognized as the head of the family, kinship group, or tribe)
  • Equalitarian (Equal sharing of practical responsibilities and decision making by men and women)
• Relationship according to place of residence

  • Patrilocal (The married couple is required to live with the family or near the residence of the parents of the groom)
  • Matrilocal (The married couple is required to live with the family or near the residence of the parents of the bride)
  • Bilocal (The newlywed has the freedom to select where to live (either with or near the parents of the groom or bride))
  • Neolocal (The newlywed can decide independently where to live)
  • Avunlocal (The newlywed should live or near the maternal uncle of the groom)