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Social Institutions and Kinship
Sociology · Chapter 1 · 1. Social Institutions
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- Social institutions: definition and features
- Kinship: meaning; consanguineous and affinal kinship; primary, secondary and tertiary kin
- Descent (patrilineal, matrilineal, bilateral) and rules of residence (patrilocal, matrilocal, avunculocal)
- Kinship usages: avoidance, joking relationship, teknonymy, avunculate, amitate, couvade
- Descriptive and classificatory kinship terms