affinity

Examples of affinity in the following topics:

• The Nature of a Family

  • In human context, a family is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-residence.
  • In human context, a family is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-residence.

• Protestant Work Ethic and Weber

  • In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, his most famous text, Weber proposed that ascetic Protestantism was one of the major "elective affinities" associated with the rise of capitalism, bureaucracy, and the rational-legal nation-state in the Western world.
  • Weber proposed that ascetic Protestantism had an elective affinity with capitalism, bureaucracy, and the rational-legal nation-state in the Western world.
  • By elective affinity, Weber meant something less direct than causality, but something more direct than correlation.
  • Weber saw an elective affinity between capitalism and Protestantism, especially Calvinism.

• Juvenile Crime

  • The study, which appeared in the September 2008 issue of the Journal of Genetic Psychology, is the first to establish a statistically significant association between an affinity for antisocial peer groups and a particular variation (called the 10-repeat allele) of the dopamine transporter gene (DAT1).
  • The study, which appeared in the September 2008 issue of the Journal of Genetic Psychology, is the first to establish a statistically significant association between an affinity for antisocial peer groups and a particular variation (called the 10-repeat allele) of the dopamine transporter gene (DAT1).

• Kinship Patterns

  • In a more general sense, kinship may refer to a similarity or affinity between entities on the basis of some or all of their characteristics.
  • 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.

• Families and Theory

  • The present day Catholic Church still maintains a standard of required distance (in both consanguinity and affinity) for marriage.

• Romantic Love

  • During the initial stages of a romantic relationship, there is more often more emphasis on emotions—especially those of love, intimacy, compassion, appreciation, and affinity—rather than physical intimacy.

• In-Groups and Out-Groups

  • In-group favoritism refers to a preference and affinity for one's in-group over the out-group or anyone viewed as outside the in-group.