UCPS LESSON 1

• Groups

  • Smaller units of society
• Primary group

  • Small, intimate and less specialized group
• Secondary group

  • Large and impersonal social group
• In groups

  • Member can identify themselves within that group
• Out groups

  • Individuals feel like they do not belong due to differences 
• Reference group

  • We consciously or unconsciously refer when we evaluate our life situations and behaviour but to which we do not necessarily belong
• Network

  • Series or web of social ties involving people or groups of individuals connected to each other.
• Kinship

  • Bond of blood or marriage which binds people together
• Kinship by blood

  • biologically related to one another.
• Kinship by marriage

  • related by virtue marriage bond
• Kinship by ritual

  • Important relationships outside of blood and marriage
• Descent

  • Refers to the origin or background of a person in terms of family or nationality
• Matrilineal descent

  • Individuals belong to their mother’s kin but not their father’s
• Patrilineal descent

  • Belonging to father’s kin
• Monogamy

  • The practice of having only one spouse
• Polygamy

  • Individual is married to more than one person at a time
• Polygyny

  • one man marries more than one person at a time
• Polyandry

  • one woman marries more than one man
• Group marriage

  • Marital arrangement of three or more adults
• Endogamy

  • Marriage within their own clan or ethnic group
• Exogamy

  • Marriage outside one’s clan or ethnic group
• Arranged marriage

  • Marriage arranged by the parents of the groom & bride
• Reffered marriage

  • Marriage referred by people who act as “matchmakers”
• Political Dynasty

  • family members who are involved in politics for several generations 
• Political Alliances

  • Political parties align/agree to cooperate to each other for common political agenda