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The document outlines the structure of Indian society, focusing on kinship, family, marriage, and descent systems. It discusses various kinship terminologies and behaviors, as well as the classification of kinship systems across different regions of India. Additionally, it includes practice questions related to kinship concepts.

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Indian Society 3

The document outlines the structure of Indian society, focusing on kinship, family, marriage, and descent systems. It discusses various kinship terminologies and behaviors, as well as the classification of kinship systems across different regions of India. Additionally, it includes practice questions related to kinship concepts.

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Indian society

Syllabus-

1. Structure of Indian society


2. Social issues
3. Welfare mechanisms

Structure of Indian Society

• family
• Marriage
• Kinship
• Caste
• Tribe
• Ethnicity
• Religion
Kinship
Def

George Murdock in his book ‘social structure’

Family - smallest unit of kinship

Consanguinal

Affinal
Degree of kinship
Primary
#= 0
Secondary

#
Territory

6
-

#
co
wa
30

Kinship terminology
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-

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Lewis, Henry Morgan is the first person to study kinship terminology.
- =

He classifies kingship terminology into

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L
Classificatory. Descriptive.
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·

p
J collated

simple
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Linea- separate
1. Unilineal descent

Bi-lineal/ double descent

Rules of descent.
Ambi-lineal descent

Bi lateral descent
Kinship behaviour

1. joking relationship.
2. Avoidance.
3. Couvade
4. Teknonymy
5. Avenculate
6. amitate

Kinship systems in India

Aavti Karva has classified kinship systems of India into

• north zone
• South zone
• Central zone
• eastern regions of India
Practice questions

1 A kinship relation in which a husband imitates a wife during pregnancy is called as

A avunculate
B couvade
C avoidance
D. Relationship.

2. if an individual traces his decent primarily through his father, then it is called as

A. Patrilineal descent
B. Matrilineal descent.
C. Double descent.
D . ambilineal descent

3. What is the degree of kinship between an individual and his sister-in-law

A. primary
B. Secondary.
C. Tertiary.
D. None of the above.
4. What is the degree of kinship between a father and his son?

A . primary
B . secondary
C. Tertiary.
D. None of the above.

5. When a unilineal and bilineal decent are applied together, but not alternatively, then the
decent is called as

A. Ambilineal descent
B. Bilateral descent.
C Double descent
D. None of the above.

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