Kinship as a Mechanism for Social Integrating It is often demonstrated in many anthropological studies that kinship acts as an important means for social integrating in a given society. But is it a fair generalization to say that kinship always functions as a mechanism for social integration? Kinship refers to the relationships established through marriage or descent groups that has been proven in some societies to lead to social integrating, or the process of interaction with other
gender and prestige The purpose of this essay is to show embeddedness of prestige system into subsystems of the cultures. We will discuss four cultures which represent four different types of social organizations; !Kung San represents band organization, Mundurucu represents village type, Polynesia - Chiefdom, and Andalusia represents state type of social organization. In all of these cultures prestige system, which is the gender system, is imbedded into other subsystems. Three of these cultures:
regulate their families and their society. For example Arrange marriage, patrilineality/matrilineality and practices of polygyny are the three majors distinctive variations of African traditional family. Arrange marriage is when the bride and the groom don’t know each other and their family member arrange their marriage base on their family background. Patrilineality/matrilineality mostly practices everywhere, patrilineality/matrilineality is when the family inheriting or determining descent through
Kinship and family structure is important in everyday life. It helps to regulate behavior and the creation of societal groups. These systems differentiate from each other based on the cultural factors that is present in various groups across the world. One cultural factor is gender. I believe that no matter what the kinship and family structure is, women will, for the majority, always be placed at a lower position than men are. Some groups that demonstrate this idea are Incas, Plains Indians, Yanomamo
masculine identity and social order. Many cultures in Asia and Africa, from the Maasai of Kenya to the Pashtun tribes of Afghanistan, have historically followed this system. The Vikings, known for their fierce warrior culture, also adhered to patrilineality, with lineages playing a crucial role in social hierarchy and land ownership. On the other hand, matrilineal societies place the mother’s line at the center. Children belong to the mother’s clan, inheriting property, titles, and cultural practices
Deniz Kandiyoti analyses how women cope and strategize within constraints, calls it ‘patriarchal bargains’, in two different forms of patriarchy, one is the sub-Saharan Africa other is the classic belt of patriarchy consisting of the middle east, south Asia and east Asia. Moreover, Kandiyoti also discusses how women respond to oppression in two different parts of the world which have an impact on their gendered subjectivities as well as create opportunities for transformation. We need to unpack
In 1877, S. Weir Mitchell published Fat and Blood: And How to Make Them, where he promoted the “rest cure” for neurasthenia. The cure refers to a drastic lifestyle change through “renewing the vitality of feeble people by a combination of entire rest and of excessive feeding” (qtd. in Martin 736). Charlotte Perkins Gilman received the same rest cure, which she portrayed in her story, “The Yellow Wallpaper.” The narrator, later named as Jane, receives rest and feeding to cure her “temporary nervous
For the purpose of this essay, we will ascribe to a conception of “progress” that promotes equality in the realms of education, occupational opportunity, independence, geographic and marital freedom, property rights, and reproductive rights. This is not the place to attempt to prove this ideological conception as objectively correct—these standards are the author’s personal metric, and will serve as one of many lenses through which one might examine the subtle nature of gender roles across different
When it comes to citizenship, equal rights for all members of the society are one of the attributes of many beliefs. Feminists, among others, believes that this conceals the reality of unfair nation on the foundation of class, ethnicity, race and, what this paper particularly focus on, gender, which can render women subject to discrimination (Meer and Sever, 2004). The outcome of this is inequality in society where because of the source of their divergence, some people are being excluded from their