Kinship and Marriage

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Kinship is exclusively determined by blood relations, excluding marriage and other social constructs.

False (B)

In contemporary societies, individuals primarily interact with relatives, maintaining the traditional kinship-oriented lifestyle.

False (B)

Fictitious kinship, also known as the principle of affinity, involves relationships created through blood relations only.

False (B)

Kinship primarily determines an individual's culinary preferences within their society.

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Unilineal descent traces kinship through both the male and female lines, recognizing all ancestors equally.

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Marriage main purpose is primarily to create new social relationships, rights, and obligations between spouses and their kin, and to establish the rights and status of the childrens when they are born.

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In industrial societies, marital unions create unbreakable bonds between groups, making separations virtually impossible.

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Marrying for emotional connectivity is not the primary reason for marriage.

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Monogamy is a marriage type in a single to many relationship.

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In polyandry, one male marries more than one wife at a time.

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Fraternal polyandry occurs when two or more cousins take one woman as their wife.

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Levirate marriage dictates that a man is entitled to marry another random woman of his choosing.

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A physically immature girl marring an older man is an example of fixed-term marriage.

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Symbolic marriage establishes economic or social ties between the parties involved.

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Fixed term marriages are permanent unions.

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Exogamy stipulates that people must marry within their smaller inner circle.

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Marriage in the Philippines is only a social institution, not a legal agreement.

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Dowry refers to payments made from the groom's parents to the bride's parents.

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Only marriage, leads to the creation of families.

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A nuclear family consists of only one parent with one or more kids.

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Flashcards

Kinship

The bond of blood or marriage which binds people together in group. It is a kind of social relationship that ties people.

Kinship importance

The lifeblood or the social building blocks of the people anthropologists study.

Kinship through blood

The principle of consanguinity, where a person is related to another through blood; includes kin, not friends.

Kinship through marriage

The principle of affinity, creating new social relationships, rights and obligations

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Kinship through adoption

The principle of fictitious kinship, where two individuals create a kind of parent-child relationship without any blood or marriage ties.

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Kinship Importance

Determines status in society, whom to marry, inheritances, power, and ancestry.

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Marriage

Marriage is defined as basically a sexual union between a man and a woman such that children born to the woman are considered the legitimate offspring of both parents.

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Marriage purpose

The main purpose of marriage is to create new social relationships, rights and obligations between the spouses and their kin, and to establish the rights and status of children when they are born.

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Marriage importance in industrial societies

Marriage in industrial societies joins individuals and relationship between individuals can be severed (broken) more easily than those between groups

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Why People Marry

Legal, social, emotional, economic, to beget children and have happy family

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Marriage (legal)

The state of being united to a person as spouse in a legal, consensual, and contractual relationship recognized and sanctioned by and dissolvable only by law.

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Monogamy

One-to-one marriage, usually male to female.

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Polygamy

One-to- many marriage.

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Endogamy

Marriage Rule: Requires that people marry within their own social group.

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Exogamy

Marriage Rule: Requires that people marry outside a group to which they belong. It bars marriage within smaller inner circle.

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Dowry

Payments made from the bride's side to the groom's family

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Bride price/wealth

Payments from the groom's parents to the bride's parents.

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Nuclear Family

A dominant form of family which consists of a husband, wife and their dependent child or children

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Extended family

A family may constitute a husband, his wife/wives, his wife's/wives' children and/or the wives and children of his sons.

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Elementary families/ Traditional families

consist of two parents (usually married or common law) and their children

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