2. One of the ways kinship is acquired is by affinal kinship, which is established through marriage or alliance, not through biology or common descent. For example, a stepchild is gained by when you marry an individual that already has children. People who are regarded as being a part of a family even though they are not related by blood, or even marriage is called fictive kinship. For example a friend you have known for a long time, when introduced he/she is called brother or sister or even cousin. Another example is lineal kinship. This type of kinship is a person related by direct line of descent. For example, a father’s father, or a son’s son. All of these examples of kinship are present in the United States. The benefits of kinship outside
In my home I have a friend who I call brother not because we were born of the same mother but because I have known him since pre-k. I am also called son by hi mother because of that relation between her son and I. In the United States another way of acquiring kinship is by adoption, Adoption is to take a child of other parents legally as your own child.
3. In a church I used to attend, a potlatch was organized after evening church service. It allowed the many diverse cultures that were present in the church to bring foods that they consider a well-known dish from their country. It allowed us to eat foods from Africa, Puerto rico, Haiti, panama, and many more. Examples of gift giving happens in my society during Christmas and your birthday. During Christmas friends and family come together to celebrate the birth of Jesus by giving gifts to
Income is the amount of money someone receives on a regular basis and wealth is the length of time that person could maintain their current lifestyle without receiving compensation for performing additional work. Yes, it is possible to have high in come and little wealth. When you attend an expensive private university, student loan debt tends to be very high to earn the degree you want. After obtaining the degree, you get the job you want with the high income per year. But after the expenses of mortgage of the expensive house, car payments, car payments, student loans, luxury clothing, and expensive travels, the total equals up to the yearly salary. Now you are living paycheck to pay check and not wealthy. Reasons why income and wealth disparities exist in the United States is because of the upsurge in labor incomes earned by senior company executives and successful entrepreneurs, immigration of less educated workers, and policy politics, and race issues. The United States income and wealth gap is widening because of falling incomes, lower savings rates and different asset holdings. Income and wealth affects social mobility. Why? Because children of and low income are born with the same abilities but different opportunities, which increase the gap between the investments high income families make compared to low income families. College graduation rates have not moved. Also increasing college prices have also discouraged low-income students from attending higher
According to Gregory Mantsios many American people believed that the classes in the United States were irrelevant, that we equally reside(ed) in a middle class nation, that we were all getting richer, and that everyone has an opportunity to succeed in life. But what many believed, was far from the truth. In reality the middle class of the United States receives a very small amount of the nation's wealth, and sixty percent of America's population receives less than 6 percent of the nation's wealth, while the top 1 percent of the American population receives 34 percent of the total national wealth. In the article Class in America ( 2009), written by Gregory Mantsios informs us that there are some huge differences that exist between the classes of America, especially the wealthy and the poor. After
Kinship is studied primarily in social and cultural anthropology. While there is no concise definition for what kinship means in the field of anthropology it can generally be thought of as the relationships within a society that are usually based off of blood or marriage. These two things in some way shape or form are recognized in nearly every society. Links of kinship form off the basis of property rights, division of labor, and political organization
The practice of matrilineality in the Americas did not imply matriarchy but served as a means of reckoning kinship. Matrilineal ties helped link extended families into clans and this ensured their
In 2014 a little over 3 million children in the United States were under the guardianship of a relative other than their parent (Szilagyi, 2014). This agreement is referred to as kinship. Kinship care is defined as the care of children by relatives or close family friends, also known as fictive kin, after they have been removed from biological parents. Relatives are usually looked to as the primary resource of care support because they maintain the child's connections with the family and help to preserve the cultural values of the family. (ChildWelfare.gov) Kinship care is divided into three different categories: informal kinship care, voluntary kinship care, and formal kinship care (child welfare information gateway, 2016).
The viewpoint of income being synonymous with class is perpetuated by the uninformed. As one approaches the highest echelons of society, there are two types of money, Old money and new money. Anyone who has read Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby should be aware of the distinction as it's made it out to be a prominent plot point throughout the novel. This would actually support Fussells assertion that there is a caste system in place our society, but only to an extent. Caste systems are defined as "a social structure in which classes are determined by heredity." What a caste would imply is that there exists almost zero chance of being able to advance. The American social class system would render this null in the sense that even new money would eventually age to become old money. But even that information is practically irrelevant as it only pertains to the highest echelons of
Wealth inequality and income inequality are often mistaken as the same thing. Income inequality is the difference of yearly salary throughout the population.1 Wealth inequality is the difference of all assets within a population.2 The United States has a high degree of wealth distribution between rich and poor than any other majorly developed nation.3
The highest earning fifth of U.S. families earned 59.1% of all income, while the richest earned 88.9% of all wealth. A big gap between the rich and poor is often associated with low social mobility, which contradicts the American ideal of equal opportunity. Levels of income inequality are higher than they have been in almost a century, the top one percent has a share of the national income of over 20 percent (Wilhelm). There are a variety of factors that influence income inequality, a few of which will be discussed in this paper. Rising income inequality is caused by differences in life expectancy, rapidly increases in the incomes of the top 5 percent, social trends, and shifts in the global economy.
Native Americans established primary relationships either through a clan system, descent from a common ancestor, or through a friendship system, much like tribal societies in other parts of the world. In the Choctaw nation, " Moieties were subdivided into several nontotemic, exogamous, matrilineal 'kindred' clans, called iksa." (Faiman-Silva, 1997, p.8) The Cheyenne tirbe also traced their ancestry through the woman's lineage. Moore (1996, p. 154) shows this when he says "Such marriages, where the groomcomes to live in the bride's band, are called 'matrilocal'." Leacock (1971, p. 21) reveals that "...prevailing opinion is that hunting societies would be patrilocal.... Matrilineality, it is assumed, followed the emergence of agriculture...." Leacock (p. 21) then stated that she had found the Montagnais-Naskapi, a hunting society, had been matrilocal until Europeans stepped in. "The Tanoan Pueblos kinship system is bilateral. The household either is of the nuclear type or is extended to include relatives of one or both parents...." (Dozier, 1971, p. 237)
Let's take it back to the past in regards to wealth distribution in this country. The fact is that the economy boomed from the end of WWII into the 1970's. “Incomes grew rapidly and at roughly the same rate up and down the income ladder, roughly doubling in inflation-adjusted terms between the late 1940s and early 1970s” (CBPP). Through the 70's economic growth slowed, and the wealth gap widened. Middle-class families were now considered lower class. People relied on the government to help them out with welfare programs. The middle-class class was weakened and the gap grew and grew. There were periods of positive fluctuation, however the middle-class simply never regained it's status that was held in more prosperous times in the past.
Income inequality has affected American citizens ever since the American Dream came into existence. The American Dream is centered around the concept of working hard and earning enough money to support a family, own a home, send children to college, and invest for retirement. Economic gains in income are one of the only possible ways to achieve enough wealth to fulfill the dream. Unfortunately, many people cannot achieve this dream due to low income. Income inequality refers to the uneven distribution of income and wealth between the social classes of American citizens.
Wealth is a diverse topic amongst many people, it’s talked about widely and there is a lot of books, journals, and statistics - that I will use in my paper - but were written based on what other people have found to be true. These sources I have chosen to use talk about the factors, struggles, and lifestyle lived based on being wealthy or not.
About half the people at the park were Consanguineal Kin. Consanguineal Kinship is defined as individuals that are related by blood; this would be my friend’s immediate family, his uncles and aunts, or as they called them, Tio and Tia, grandparents and many more that are blood
A family might include anyone related by blood or by adoption such as: step parents, grandparents acting as parents, and even brothers and sisters sharing the same household. However, worldwide “the family is regarded as the most ba...
Wealth inequality is the uneven distribution of resources in a given state or population, which can also be called the wealth gap. The sum of one’s total assets excluding the liabilities equates the person’s wealth also known as the net worth. Investments, residents, cash, real estates and everything owned by an individual are their assets.In reality, the United States is among the richest countries in the world, though a few people creating a major gap between the richest, the middle class and the poor control most of its wealth. For more than a quarter of a century, only the rich American families have shown an increase to their net worth.Thisis a worrying fact for the less fortunate in the country and calls for assessment (Baranoff, 2015).
Income inequality continues to increase in today’s world, especially in the United States. Income inequality means the unequal distribution between individuals’ assets, wealth, or income. In the Twilight of the Elites, Christopher Hayes, a liberal journalist, states the inequality gap between the rich and the poor are increasing widening, and there need to have things done - tax the rich, provide better education - in order to shortening the inequality gap. America is a meritocratic country, which means that everybody has equal opportunity to be successful regardless of their class privileges or wealth. However, equality of opportunity does not equal equality of outcomes. People are having more opportunities to find a better job, but their incomes are a lot less compared to the top ten percent rich people. In this way, the poor people will never climb up the ladder to high status and become millionaires. Therefore, the government needs to increase all the tax rates on rich people in order to reduce income inequality.