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Marriage
Sociology · Chapter 2 · 1. Social Institutions
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- Marriage: definition, features and functions
- Exogamy: clan, gotra, pravara, village and sapinda exogamy
- Endogamy: caste, sub-caste, varna and tribal endogamy
- Cross-cousin and parallel-cousin marriage, levirate, sororate, hypergamy and hypogamy
- Forms of marriage: monogamy and polygamy (polygyny and polyandry)