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Abstract. Marriage is universal, and pair bonding is found in other species too with highly dependent young. So marriage functions as a reproductive social arrangement that traditionally involved the extended family. The sexes are not identical in their biological contributions to children's survival, so they seek somewhat different attributes ...
- Glenn E Weisfeld, Carol C Weisfeld
- 2002
Kinship groups may also control economic resources and dictate decisions about where people can live, who they can marry, and what happens to their property after death. Anthropologists use kinship charts to help visualize descent groups and kinship. The image below is a simple example of a kinship chart.
Thus the total phenotypic variance for divorce (var d) is calculated as the sum of four variance components (var d =b 2 +a 2 +c 2 +e 2) when the variance for marriage is equal to 1, and when the variance components are uncorrelated between liability to marriage and to divorce. Critical to the CCC model is that data for the down stream variable (i.e., divorce) are structurally missing for those ...
- Circles and Triangles
- Family and Marriage
- The New Kinship Studies
From the beginning of the discipline of Anthropology until the 1980s, the first thing a cultural anthropologist would do upon arriving to live and study with a group of people was to learn their kinship. Kinship, culturally defined relationships between persons based on descent (actual or presumed) or marriage, is a way all societies organize thems...
Families, and kinship in general, are about relationships. Relationships are defined by status and roles. Status is any culturally-designated position a person occupies in a particular setting. Roleis the set of behaviors expected of an individual who occupies a particular status. For example, a person may have the status of “mother.” The role ass...
Today, kinship studies have changed from Lewis Henry Morgan’s time of studying the kinship patterns of one society. Today, kinship studies tend to focus on new ideas of relatedness, from studies of adoption, changing ideas of marriage, including gay marriage, and studies of reproductive technologies–new ways of creating families including the use o...
A straightforward definition of marriage is: a legally recognized social contract between two people, based on a sexual or intimate relationship, and implying cohabitation and a permanence of the union. But to create a more inclusive definition, sociologists might also consider variations, such as whether a formal legal union is required (think of common-law marriage and its equivalents ...
normative terms, which consequently moves the definition of the family to a new conceptual landscape. Last, I present my own account of familial relations that aims to capture a normative understanding of the unique primary purpose of the family. It is challenging to identify a conception of the family that is uncontroversial,
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pregnancies. . . .”5 Marriage “is necessary to bind the parents together and to provide stability to what might otherwise be an unstable family.”6 If marriage’s purpose is to channel accidental pregnancy into marriage, same-sex couples fall outside that purpose. On this account, same-sex couples who
