SOCI 2630 Lecture Notes - Incest Taboo, Friedrich Engels, Exogamy

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Moral entrepreneur: someone who makes a living telling society that it"s falling apart because it"s taking an immoral direction, seize on the fact that society falling apart due to immoral path. The cleaver model: traditional nuclear family(refers to old sitcom) Husband who worked, wife stayed at home doing housework looking after kids. Incest taboo: forbids sexual relations or marriage between certain people of the kinship network. Kinship organization/network = aunt"s uncles , grandparents, cousins etc. Matrilineal: traces decent through mothers line. Navajo: aboriginal people, first nations people in america, located in arizona and new mexico. Matrilineal navajo: say that sexual relations with any of the mother"s relatives is forbidden. Bilateral: trace decent through both mother and father. Incan: civilization permited brother/sister marraiges, especially in leading family - intended to keep the family pure. Hawaiian: brother/sister marriage permitted, wanted to keep royal lineage. Endogamy: people marry within their group. Exogamy: people marry ouside their group.

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