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Sociology of Kinship

Notes Westmarks’s Scheme is an expression of development for the institutions. He made it more one
sided. He started learning origin of marriage into marriage system but it is related mainly with
the moral values. Westermark’s rigidity of these thoughts is a blow on its main basis of theory.
Brefa got motivated by Morgan’s thoughts, he condemned and criticized Westermarks’s
thoughts. Brefa advocated Motherly dominance on the origin of family and on other institution.
Means, ‘Mother is supreme’. Brefa told, the fatherly dominated family and monogamous family
developed late in the course of time.
Modern researchers of “The family”, do not keep any relationship with its problems of origin
basis. They did not go into this, because either they were rejected by the failure of previous writ-
ers or historical outputs are totally re-established, but some writers found comparative studies
totally useless and waste. Researchers and discovers on the basis of their detected information
told that the family “prevails everywhere in the world, in all parts and cultures and on all levels.
In contrast to this, historical facts did not show any definite importance as yet. Early precursors
told original Australians has the oldest, but its totally acceptable fact that Andaman people are
the oldest. The family system that prevails in Andaman’s and original residents of Australians
was a socially acceptable unit. In Indian continent too, even socially and economically back-
ward tribes has family organisation. These tribes are — Kadar, Paniyan, Malapantarian, Checu,
Birhor, etc. Morgan told about the trend of “Sib” in uncivilized, “Sib” of any kind can be found
in agrarian tribal who depends on agriculture. “Sib” is not exists in Andaman residents and
uncivilized tribes like Kadar, but “Sib” represents a big group of Toda and Khasi tribes. The
family is based on generalised facts. These family members get recognition only blood related,
physically close, co-operative or emotionally connected. Among them, classification and choice
do not exists as happens in “Sib.” The basic drives, which can be fulfilled and had been fulfilled
earlier happens in family like groups only, this shows that ‘family’ always exists in the human
culture. It is also clear, that the family has many old faces because it developed from many refer-
ences theoretically everywhere. Existence of a family is granted because it feed sex and food de-
sires, helps in economic difficulties and follow the culture and traditions. When the sex-relations
established and economic enterprises take a form, “the family” automatically takes shapes.
The child birth makes family life more stable and organised. Although family is the answer to all
the challenges such as—physical, physiological, nature and environmental, but we cannot exag-
gerate this fact much because a family structure determines by local cultural traditions every
where. It might happens that only one type of family structure prevails in a society apparently,
but in practically life, it can be many types. This is why we find many types of family groups in
one socio-cultural surroundings.

Self Assessment

Fill the blanks:
1. Neo-researchers of “a family” do not have any relationship with its _____________ prob-
lems.
2. Researchers _____________ get facts that ‘a family’ prevails in every culture and every-
where in the world.
3. Tradition of family in Australian origin is very important in _____________ and ________
point of view.

The Original Sources of a Family

As a member of mankind, a man’s life may affects from the pre-determined circumstances. Tak-
ing breath, eat , drink, sleep, reproduction all are a man’s necessary needs. Some works, which
delt above (first and somewhat of last) a men can do himself or alone, but other works are such

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