Kinship Units
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kinship unit is a group of individuals are related to one another by blood, marriage, or adoption. Within the kinship group there is usually a division of authority, privilege, responsibility, and economic and sex roles.. Definitions of kinship differ from one society to anther. In other societies a more common type of kinship group is the extended family, parents, children, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and others living together or in very close proximity. Other kinships include the modified extended family, in which the individual nuclear families live separately but the extended family remains a strong kinship organization through a combination personal, economical exchanges, and mutual aid. Nuclear family is the predominant kinship group in hunting and gathering societies and in industrial societies, whereas the extended family is more likely to be found in agrarian societies. Most all societies no matter what there economic levels and political development, are organized around a system of modified kinship units within which the nuclear family is a more or less autonomous unit. In societies in which the extended-kin sytem is the dominant family type, married couples generally choose to live with family network established by either the man's or the woman's kinship group. In societies in which the nuclear family is dominant, newly married couples are expected to set up a household that is relatively independent and the paternal kinship groups while maintaining ties o both extended families.
Regardless of type, all families are characterized b an organization of roles..