Week 11-Kinship And Gender Flashcards
Kinship
Social relationships based on mating, birthing, and nurturing the baby
Descent
Based on culturally recognized parent-child connections
Social relationships that come from birthing relationships
Ex:a mother or father and their offspring
Adoption
Based on nurturance, often in the absence of other connections based on mating and birth
Sex
Physical and genetic characteristics of a person (DNA)
Gender
Social role of a person
Set of behaviors that are considered appropriate
How you present yourself
Examples of non-binary gender identities?
A-gender
- someone who identifies as having no gender
- genderless
Gender fluid
-someone who goes between different genders and sometimes exhibits multiple genders at once
Marriage
An institution that:
- transforms the status of the participants
- carries implications about permitted sexual access
- perpetuates social patterns through the birth of offspring
- creates relationships between the kin of partners
- symbolically marked
Bridewealth
- good or money given to the brides family
- Payment from taking the bride and whatever job she performs from her family
Dowry
-goods or money a bride takes with her to her new marriage
Patrilocality
-when a woman goes to live with her husbands family
Matrilocality
-when a man goes to live with his wife’s family
Polygamy
Societies that allow for multiple wives
Polyandry
Societies that allow for multiple husbands
VERY FEW ever existed
Homosexual marriage
Marriage between two females or two males
Exogamy
Marrying outside of ones group (a blood clan, a clan, a moiety, religious/cultural group)
Endogamy
Marrying within ones group
Clan
A descent group with a common ancestor
Moiety
One half into which a society is divided, often made up of a set of clan
Often practice exogamy by marrying different clans
Lineage
Members of a descent group (related by blood) that trace descent from known ancestors
Bilateral descent
Tracing ancestry through both parents
Patrilineage
Social group formed by connection of fathers and children
Most important ancestors on fathers side
Matrilineage
Social group formed by connections of mothers and children
Most important ancestors on mothers side
Family
Where two or more people are related by blood, marriage, or adoption
Conjugal family
A married pair and their children
Nonconjugal family
A woman and her children
The father is either absent or only occasionally present
