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This document discusses kinship, marriage, and the household. It defines kinship as social relationships that form an essential part of human lives. Descent refers to a person's family or national origin. Marriage is an institutional element of the family that ensures its continuity through a legal contract and status. Factors like polygamy, monogamy, and norms around partner selection shape the structure of kinship groups. Overall, the document examines key concepts related to social organization within families and between families.

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This document discusses kinship, marriage, and the household. It defines kinship as social relationships that form an essential part of human lives. Descent refers to a person's family or national origin. Marriage is an institutional element of the family that ensures its continuity through a legal contract and status. Factors like polygamy, monogamy, and norms around partner selection shape the structure of kinship groups. Overall, the document examines key concepts related to social organization within families and between families.

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he Household
Kinship by Blood
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- The Family is the basic social institution and the primary
group in society. Families vary from culture to culture.

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MARRIAGE
It is an institutional element of the family.
It is the cultural mechanism that
ensures it’s continuity. Marriage
consists of a cluster of mores
and folkways, of attitudes, ideas
of social definitions and legal
restriction
THE CONTRACT
It is permanent, compared to other ordinary

NEW contracts.

FAMILY
CODE STATUS
(Two aspects of Once the contract of marriage is legal, the status
Marriage) of being married is created between parties.
According to Bowman (1970) people marry for
combined reasons:

1 Love, Economic and Emotional Security

2 The parents’ desires, escape from solitude or forlorn home situation

3 Money, Companionship, Protection, Adventure or Common Interest

4 Sex or Sexual Attraction


REQUIREMENTS
• Male and Female
• Consent freely given in the presence of the so
lemnizing officer.
• The minimum age for marriage is 18 years old
but parental consent is necessary for those be
low.
• The requisites of marriage are the authority of
the solemnizing officer.
Kinship by Marriage
The form of marriage practiced in society affects the structure of the family’s larger kinship group.

Polygamy
Form of plural marriage.

Three forms of polygamy:


Polygyny

Forms of Marriage
Marriage of a man to two or
more women at the same
Monogamy time.

Allows or permits a man Polyandry


to take only one spouse Marriage of a women to two
at a time or more man at the same
time.

Group Marriage
Selection of Marriage Partners
Two types of norms

Religion
ENDOGAMY
Marry within
one’s clan or Extend
Social ethnic group. Territory
EXOGAMY
Status
Prescribes that
one can marry
outside one’s
clan
Royalty

Prevent
Incest
Other Norms
Being observed by some society

LEVIRATE SURROGATE

The levirate norm


While the surrogate
prescribes that a
norm prescribes that
widow marry the
men should marry the
brother or nearest kin
sisters or nearest kin.
of the deceased
husband

These norms are being and power within the family and
observed to maintain the allow the socialization of it’s
wealth member to go on
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