ATH 175 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Family Therapy
16 Dec 2016
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Kinship
• Kinship system
o The predominate form of kin relationships in a culture and the kind of behavior
involved
• Kinship
o Derived from universal experience of mating and birth
o How relationships relate to mating/birth and how people act depending on these
relationships
• Kinship systems
o Solutions to a universal problems facing all human societies
▪ Successful reproduction
• How do we ensure
o Biologically?
o Culturally?
• How will reproduction be controlled
o Nutrition
o Health
o Sleep
• How will children learn
o What to learn
o Who will teach them
• How should they be cared for
• How will resources be allocated
o Cultural logics for organizing society to create family systems that ensure
reproduction
• Affinal relationships
o Law
o Established through marriage
o Adoption
• Consanguineal relationships
o Blood
o Believed to involve relations of descent
• Functions and social uses
o 1. Establishes social groups
o 2. Establishes rights and responsibilities
o 3. Establishes an ideology of human relationships
• Social groups
o Kinship relations
▪ 1. Defines social groups
▪ 2. Locates people within those groups
▪ 3. Positions the people and the groups in relation to each other in time and
space
• Rights and responsibilities
o 1. Some are codified in law or custom
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