ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Kinship, American Middle Class, Nuclear Family
16 Oct 2013
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Family: a group of people who are considered to be related to some way, by blood or marriage. Family of orientation: the family in which one is born and grows up. Family of procreation: formed when one marries and has children. Neolocality: post marital residence pattern in which a couple establishes a new place of residence rather than living with or near either set of parents. Extended family household: when an expanded family household includes three or more generations. Descent group: a permanent social unit who members claim common ancestry. Patrilineal descent: people automatically have lifetime membership in their father"s group but the children of the group"s women are excluded. Matrilineal descent: people join the mother"s group automatically at birth and stay members throughout life. Unilineal descent: the descent rule uses one line only, either male or female. Lineages: unilineal descent group based on demonstrated descent. Clans: unilineal descent group based on stipulated descent.
