Families and Kinship

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  • Created by: alharmsy
  • Created on: 11-01-17 11:03
What is Kinship?
A connection between people. Can be just blood relations but can also extend further than blood.
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Is kinship biology or culture?
It's a social construct: we all choose and decide who is in our kinship ties.
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What does Shneider say about kinship?
He said that what we term kinship is culturally different, different cultures see different people to be in their kinship groups
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Where do children come from?
This is believed differently from all different cultures
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What does Morgan say about our kinship ties?
The way that we talk about people who we think are related to us is a social construction
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What other way can kinship be identified through?
Kinship can also be identified through emotional attachment
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Give 2 reasons why kinship is so important in some societies
To decide who is marriageable. Choosing who to give inheritance to
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What does Patrineal mean?
Decent through the male line
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What does Matrineal mean?
Decent through the female line
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What does bilateral mean?
Decent from both sides
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Is kinship biology or culture?

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It's a social construct: we all choose and decide who is in our kinship ties.

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What does Shneider say about kinship?

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Card 4

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Where do children come from?

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What does Morgan say about our kinship ties?

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