kinship

Examples of kinship in the following topics:

• Kinship Patterns

  • Kinship is a term with various meanings depending upon the context.
  • In other disciplines, kinship may have a different meaning.
  • Members of a society may use kinship terms without being biologically related, a fact already evident in Morgan's use of the term "affinity" within his concept of the "system of kinship. " The most lasting of Morgan's contributions was his discovery of the difference between descriptive and classificatory kinship, which situates broad kinship classes on the basis of imputing abstract social patterns of relationships having little or no overall relation to genetic closeness.
  • Cultures worldwide possess a wide range of systems of tracing kinship and descent.
  • The genetic kinship degree of relationship is marked in red boxes by percentage (%).

• Introduction: Multiple relations among actors

  • Most of tools of social network analysis deal with structures defined by patterns in a single kind of relationship among actors: friendship, kinship, economic exchange, warfare, etc.
  • In face-to-face groups of persons, the actors may have emotional connections, exchange relations, kinship ties, and other connections all at the same time.
  • Solidarity may be established by economic exchange, shared information, kinship, and other ties operating simultaneously.

• Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

  • These associations are marked by what Tönnies called "unity of will. " He saw the family as the most perfect expression of Gemeinschaft; however, he also expected that Gemeinschaft could be based on shared place and shared belief as well as kinship, and included globally dispersed religious communities as possible examples of Gemeinschaft.
  • For instance, during the social upheavals of the Reconstruction era in the United States, former slaves, whose kinship ties were forcibly disrupted under slavery, forged new communities that shared aspects of both Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft.

• The Nature of Marriage

  • Marriage is a social union or legal contract between people called spouses that creates kinship.
  • Marriage is a social union or legal contract between spouses that creates kinship.

• The Nature of a Family

  • Consanguinity is defined as the property of belonging to the same kinship as another person.

• Durkheim's Mechanical and Organic Solidarity

  • Mechanical solidarity normally operates in "traditional" and small-scale societies, and it is usually based on kinship ties of familial networks.

• Study Questions

  • Are there sub-structures within the kinship group of which you are a part?

• Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

  • Gemeinschaft is thus marked by "unity of will. " Tönnies saw the family as the most perfect expression of gemeinschaft; however, he expected that gemeinschaft could be based on shared place and shared belief as well as kinship, and he included globally dispersed religious communities as possible examples of gemeinschaft.
  • The social upheavals during the Reconstruction era of the United States complicated the sociological category of gemeinschaft because former slaves, whose kinship ties were complicated under slavery, forged new communities that shared aspects of both gemeinschaft and gesellschaft.

• Cohesiveness

  • Characteristics shared by members of a group may include interests, values, representations, ethnic or social background, and kinship ties.
  • Kinship ties being a social bond based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption.

• Fieldwork and Observation

  • This is a set of procedures by which ethnographers discover and record connections of kinship, descent, and marriage using diagrams and symbols.