Kinship Systems, Family Dynamics, and Sexual Rules

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Kinship Systems, Family Dynamics, and Sexual Rules
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A Family Tree
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Family Dynamics

• Marriage rules
• Child rearing practices
• Sexuality rules
• Sex Roles, masculinity and femininity

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Patterns and Rules Questions

• 1. Who can marry?
• 2. Who can marry whom?
• Endogamy or Exogamy
• The crime of Incest (having sexual relations with
  or marrying a close relative) defined as either
  a biological and an economic/political problem.
• Homogamy marrying in the same social class or
  group

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Patterns and Rules Questions

• 3. Who moves into whose house? Patrilocal,
  matrilocal, or neolocal patterns?
• 4. How does property transfer between
  generations? Patrilineal or matrilineal
  transfer?

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Collateral Kinship

• The degree of collateral kinship of two persons
  is computed by commencing with one of the
  persons, ascending from that person to a common
  ancestor, descending from that ancestor to the
  other person, and counting one degree for each
  person in the line of ascent and in the line of
  descent, exclusive of the person from whom the
  computation begins.

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Collateral Kinship, cont.

• Siblings are related to each other in the second
  degree, uncle and niece are related to each other
  in the third degree, and first cousins are
  related to each other in the fourth degree.

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