UCSP (KINSHIP AND MARRIAGE)

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• it is a system of meaning and power relations to determine relationships​
• It defines rights, responsibilities and expectations​
  ​- Social scientist explore kin relations that can be through CONSAGUINEAL or AFFINAL
• Kinship is one of the most complex systems of culture. All human groups have a kinship terminology to refer to kin. ​

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KINSHIP SYSTEM

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relation is forged through rituals (e.g. Marriage)​

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AFFINAL

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measures biological or blood ties​

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CONSANGUINEAL

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tracing to only one parent

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Unilineal

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This inheritance perspective of kinship is the vertical function. Another function is horizontal, which refers to the ties of people across a single generation through marriage.

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FUNCTIONS OF KINSHIP

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are permanent social unit whose members claim common ancestry. Membership is lifelong and determined at birth. It also refers to the rules of culture uses to establish affiliations with one’s parents.​

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DESCENT

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An ego that belongs to the ______ refers to his or her ancestry through the female line. (Refer to the image). Ego’s female ancestors are related to him or her.

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MATRILINEAL DESCENT

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• refers to the tracing of ancestry through only one parent, either the mother’s or the father’s line, not the combination of the two.​
• It can be exclusively be through either matrilineal or patrilineal.

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Unilineal Descent

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there are 2 types of rules of descent:

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• Unilineal (2)
• Non Lineal (4)

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allow parents to choose which side of the kin to affiliate their children. Membership decisions are normally decided upon marriage.

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AMBILINEAL DESCENT

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• refers to tracing descent through the male line. In societies that use patrilineal descent, children — both males and females, belong to their father’s kin.​
• Only males can pass on their family identity to their children.

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PATRILINEAL DESCENT

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In this rare cognatic descent, males and females are traced both matrilineally and patrilineally. However, inheritance and obligations descend only to one side.

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DOUBLE DESCENT OR BILENEAL

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In ______, an ego is equally related to both mother’s and father’s side of the kin. In this system, an ego creates links to everyone part of the kin, even those that are not part of​
the blood line.

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BILATERAL DESCENT

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• is a characteristics of human relations and social groupings that exist in all cultures. It is socially recognized relation that involves emotional and physical intimacy, sexual reproduction, companionship, legal rights, and inheritance.​
• ____ is a culturally defined and institutionalized form of relationship, and a social practice designed to address the needs of human beings.

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MARRIAGE

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is a marriage between a man and a woman that is a widely accepted norm worldwide

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MONOGAMY