ANTHRO 2A Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Segmentary Lineage, Bilateral Descent, Polyandry
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Social organization: different than culture, an issue about how a society works, how people confront certain issues. Social structure: an identification of the human groups that make up society; the groups and relations between that make up society: ex: social classes, corporations, lawmakers. Institution: social relations organized around particular theme or task; often helps turn youngsters into productive people of society (society works through institutions: ex: school, administration, boy scouts. Kin terms: culture specific language, word of particular language that natives use in listing different categories of kinship. the list of words used in a particular language to refer to all their categories of kin: ex: mother, aunt. Biological kin type & all notations: serve as a description of actual genealogical relationship, cultural context used by anthropologists that classifies the archetypes of human roles: anthropological notation: f=father, s=son, d=daughter, b=brother, z=sister, c=child, Nuclear family & extended family: nuclear family = consists of parents and their children.
