SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Kinship Terminology, Consanguinity, Lewis H. Morgan
19 Feb 2015
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Kinship: family, people we are related to, want to know how we understand how we are believing how we are related to others. Euro-american understandings of relatedness: americans see kinship as cultural not natural. Iroquois kinship terminology: everyone in one generation is mother and father: we follow the eskimo terminology, lewis henry morgan. As we are moving more and more to its progression of kinship and society so we are reducing it to its biological element: radcliffe brown. The idea that kinship is a map of a society but only of certain societies: emile durkham. Mechnical solidarity: collective consciousness, we are all thinking alike but work as independants. Organic solidarity: division of labour, we are all dependent on one another. We see each other as individuals with independent thoughts. How kinship is understood: our relationship to others, relatedness is much more than who your mom/ dad is.
