SOCL 2505 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Lawrence Stone, Patrilineality, Plymouth Colony
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Philip ari s examined works of art dating back 1,000 years. Ari s concluded that the concept of childhood was a modern invention. The public family is as old as human civilization, but the private family blossomed only during the past few hundred years. Throughout most of their existence, human beings have been hunter-gatherers people who wander through forests hunting animals & gathering edible plants. In societies in which a tribe ruled a territory & no other strong government existed, people often traced descent through either the father"s or the mother"s line, but not both. What resulted were kinship groups called lineages a form of kinship group in which descent is traced through either the father"s or the mother"s line: patrilineage, matrilineage. A kinship group in which descent is through the father"s line. A kinship group in which descent is through the mother"s line. Kinship developed as a weapon in the struggle for survival .
