ANT 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Patrilineality, Patrilocal Residence, Matriarchy
9 Dec 2016
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Age categories formally named and recognized; crosscut society; basis of social organization: especially some pastoral societies, ages are used to define what a person does (responsibilities), what skills they are learning etc, usually found in patrilineal societies. Individuals: move through grades as a group (named category of people) Ide(cid:374)tify as (cid:272)ohorts of (cid:858)age sets(cid:859) (actual group of people) Functions: aid transition from one life stage to another, teach skills, provide economic assistance. Common interest/voluntary associations: non-kin based groups formed around shared interests: linked with rapid social change and urbanization. Increasingly assume roles formerly played by kinship or age groups: face to face associations declining; online associations growing, examples: sports groups; reading groups; political interest groups; special facebook groups, often go beyond just the groups as relationships develop. Sexual dimorphism: physical expressions of those differences: gender: cultural constructions of social meanings of sex differences; not limited to male/female, gender roles: tasks and activities that cultures assign to the sexes.
