PSYC 2400 Study Guide - Final Guide: Masculinity, Secularism, Marcel Mauss
2 Oct 2015
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Includes biological descent and affiliation through social practices such as marriage. How kinship relations are formed and reckoned varies from one culture to another. Family social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group. Consanguinity descent, relation through common blood and the family one is born into. Affinity alliance, relation through marriage or social institutions, people and families one is connected to after birth. Key thought: kinship terms and conceptualizations do not necessarily reflect the biological facts of reproduction (delaney 2011: 173) Kinship as lens to understand wider social dynamics. Major comparative work to advance argument for human unity. Relation reckoned through both the mother and father"s side. Relation reckoned through either the mother"s or father"s side. Still recognized in small-scale societies throughout the world. Matrilineage - all the members of your mother"s lineage. Matrilineal relation of descent throught the mother.
