Ties That Connect--Marriage, Family, and Kinship |  |
Learning ObjectivesAfter finishing this chapter, students should be able to understand:
- Understand the principles of marriage prohibitions, incest taboos, and marriage payments.
- Understand the multiple types of postmarital residence patterns and their subsequent effect on the structure of family and household over the life cycle of the family.
- Understand the different types of descent groups and how they form the identity of individuals.
- Understand the principles of analyzing different kinship terminology systems, and how kinship terminology relates to ideas about marriage, family, household, and appropriate social relations with different sets of kin.
- Learning ObjectiveUnderstand new forms of family emerging in American society and elsewhere as the result of adoption, same sex unions, remarriage, new reproductive technologies, and transnational families.
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