Historically‚ large kinship groups—such as clans‚ lineages‚ and tribes— often secured the lives and property of their members and provided them with social safety nets. Institutions were also often provided by states and governed by customary or authoritarian rulers and by religious authorities. Private-order‚ usually undesigned‚ institutions also prevailed. Corporation-based institutions can substitute for institutions provided in these ways. When they substitute for kinship groups and provide social
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Summary Ibn Khaldun: Group Solidarity The concept of group solidarity rose from Ibn Khaldun and his ways of dealing with people and communicating with them. Ibn Khaldun is a North African Arab aristocrat who settled in a castle in Algeria to write a narrative of the history of the world‚ in 1375. But before starting off his narrative‚ Ibn Khaldun thought about the human history in terms of historical meaning‚ truth and method. It is this “muqaddimah”‚ an extensive formal essay‚ which gave him
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Intercultural and Intergeneration Communication within the Chinese American Families In recent decades‚ migration waves have brought to the United States large numbers of Asians and Pacific Islanders (API). Well over two-fifths of all non-amnesty persons admitted in the U.S. in 1991 were API.[i] The trend of increasing API immigration is clear and the API portion in the U S. total immigration steadily grew from the 1972’s 28.7 percent to 1985’s 44.2 percent. According to the U.S. Census Bureau
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called themselves the Grey Kinship. Kaisog lead his great army across the barren landscapes of a land known as Wisteria. As they conquered more villages‚ they burned them to ash‚ which flied away with the wind‚ covering the plains of grass in a thick coating of gray dust—hence the Grey
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The theme of Alice Walker ’s The Color Purple is very straightforward and simple. Like many other novels devoted to the mistreatment of blacks and black women especially‚ The Color Purple is dedicated to black women ’s rights. Much of the narrative in Walker ’s novel is derived from her own personal experience‚ growing up in the rural South as an uneducated and abused child. In short‚ the goal of this book and indeed all her writing is to inspire and motivate black women to stand up for their
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Kinship of the Inuit People Shannette M Hoskins ANT 101 17 February 2013 When people live in harsh environments it causes them to work together in different ways to ensure their survival such as the Inuit people of the Artic. For the most part the Inuit people are considered to be foragers‚ this means they rely heavily on the environment to sustain their way of life. The social organization of the Inuit is described as a “band” (Effland‚ 2013). These bands can consist of anywhere from sixty
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Anthropology is the study of human races‚ societies‚ origins‚ and cultures. To the individual‚ anthropology focuses on understanding yourself in relation to others. It finds reasoning behind why people behave the way they do and what factors affect this. Anthropology has contributed in advances in the medical field‚ business world‚ and education. The more we learn about human interactions‚ the easier it becomes to progress as a society and stay clear of miscommunication. A plethora of concepts
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excerpt we read of Kath Weston’s Exiles from Kinship. In Families We Choose: Lesbians‚ Gays‚ Kinship is a description of something immediate to my family. Weston describes the alienation of homosexual individuals within their own families and how generic family structures and values are different for homosexuals because of the low tolerance for that lifestyle that families sometimes have. The people described have to leave and find their own family or kinship groups to rely on for support instead of
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evaluates the two family models‚ the traditional model and the care model. They are part of an “ethical debate” of which model is better for a family. Instead of choosing between the two he suggests a third model‚ the kinship model as a “moral agent” for the debate (61). He thinks of the kinship model as being better suited for the family model. Wiesemann persuades his view by appealing to the audience’s emotions for the most part. Although he does well to prove his point‚ his arguments are ineffective
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of work‚ Anglin finds that factory life is not the most meaningful aspect of the mica women’s lives; rather‚ they are multifaceted people who find meaning in religion‚ kinship and community (Anglin 2002: 98). In Chapter 6‚ “Paternalism‚ Protest and Back Talk‚” Anglin uses the research of her previous chapters to argue that the kinship based networks “took the place of formalized dissent and provided the means for women to negotiate the politics of the shop floor” (Anglin 2002: 104). Since women were
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