Chapter 10 Kinship and Descent

Refers to the relationships found in all societies based on blood and marriage.

One's biological or blood relatives

Kinship ties formed through marriage (in-laws)

Relationships among individuals who recognize kinship obligations even though the relationships aren't based on consanguineal or affianal ties. (adoption, close friends of family)

The ways in which all kinship systems tend to provide social continuity by binding together different generations.

The ways in which all kinship systems, by requiring people to marry outside their own small kinship group, function to integrate the total society through marriage bonds between otherwise unrelated kin groups.

The person in kinship diagrams from whose point of view the relationships are traced.

Kin relationships traced through a single line, such as son, father, and grandfather.

Kin relationships traced through a linking relative.

Relationships found in all societies that are based on blood or marriage.

Person's kinship connections traced back through a number of generations.

Tracing descent through a single line (such as matrilineal or patrilineal) as compared to both sides (bilateral descent.)

From of descent in which people trace their primary kin through their mothers.

Descent in which people trace their primary kin through their fathers.

Form of descent traced through both females and males.