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The basic social building blocks in most societies are kinship systems and/or household forms: (families).

The basic social building blocks in most societies are kinship systems and/or household forms: (families). . They are very important units for cross-cultural understanding. variations of marriage (cross-culturally) issues of sexuality and reproductive capacity of women and men.

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The basic social building blocks in most societies are kinship systems and/or household forms: (families).

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  1. The basic social building blocks in most societies are kinship systems and/or household forms: (families).

  2. They are very important units for cross-cultural understanding • variations of marriage (cross-culturally) • issues of sexuality and reproductive capacity of women and men. • gender relations • domestic violence • divorce patterns • changes in household and kinship systems

  3. Household forms • Nuclear • ---a couple (usually a man and a woman) living together with or without their unmarried children. • Extended families • ---nuclear family plus later generations (the children of the children also live in the household )

  4. In North America nuclear families are declining rapidly • women independency • work patterns • high rate of divorce

  5. Most people belong to at least two nuclear families in their lifetime. • family of orientation and • family of procreation.

  6. Plural marriages • Or Polygamy • a. Polygyny: more than one wife • b. Polyandry: more than one husband

  7. The practice of men marrying later than women promotes Polygyny among the Kanury people of Bornu,Nigeria (Cohen 1967) • between 18 and 30 years of age • women between 12-14 • more widows than widowers

  8. Polyandry is more rare than polygyny • Found in • Tibet, • parts of India, • Nepal • and Sri-Lanka. • Fraternal polyandry

  9. Bridewealth and Dowry Bridewealth compensates the wife’s group for the lost of companionship and labour. Dowry, on the other hand, is a marital exchange in which the wife’s kin provides gifts to the husband’s family.

  10. Polyandry • The case of the Pahari people of the Himalayas in India • West and Central regions differences • shortage of females in west Pahari. • Infanticide • joined the Buddhist nuns

  11. Discussion Questions • Why do you think “fraternal polyandry” is socially acceptable in Tibet but not in our society? • What are the pros and cons of arranged marriages versus freedom of choice?

  12. Bridewealth and Dowry

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