W2 Flashcards
1
Q
What is a social structure?
A
Ties by which persons and groups are bound to one another or divided from one another in the activities of social life.
2
Q
What is unilineal descent?
A
Tracing ancestry from either line of descent.
3
Q
What is cognatic descent?
A
Tracing ancestry from both lines of descent. (Bilateral)
4
Q
What is E.E. Evan’s-Pritchard’s theory?
A
Segmentary Lineage Theory.
5
Q
What are the features of the segmentary lineage organisation?
A
Internal equality, corporate group, territorial based, both a kin group and a political group.
6
Q
What is segmentary opposition? (Complementary opposition)
A
Closer relatives stand against the more distant relatives. A political systems. An economic system: allocation of resources, inheritance.
