PSYCH 3F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Generation Jones, Social Class
12 Mar 2018
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Lecture 4- kinship: the family is the fundamental unit of human social organization. Yet, psychologists rarely study the psychology of kinship. Other social science disciplines do, but even then, there is little recognition that there is something special and universal about the psychology of kinship. Indeed, many social scientists have antipathy for the idea that concepts of. Anything humans do has to have a biological function, your brain thinks of it in terms of kinship. Kinship systems are variable, and therefore we often think of them as not biological kinship may reflect anything (cid:498)biological(cid:499) Many cultures hold (cid:498)theories: of pro-creation that are at odds with genealogical kinship. But closer inspection suggests that genealogical relationships remain central. I. e. how we identify kin: daly et. al. (1997) point to universals such as. Every culture has a kinship notion related to the individual. If these things were culturally arbitrary than we should expect some cultures to not be egocentric or not have parent-offspring mapping.
