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Sociology of Kinship

Notes in rural areas, even though here also society has male dominance, female does not get even a
single part of property.
Two different trends are prevailing in the urban society now. First gradually women-awaken-
ing, given space to women in many occupations and socially useful activities. Second women
are following western trends blindly without any objectives. “The marriage is unbreakable:
Hindu Shastras believes, there are stable relations and religions ritual.
In last some decades, it felt that amendment is necessary in the living related laws of Hindu
families established by religion because it is the necessity of contemporary social life and chang-
ing atmosphere. As indicate earlier, inter gotra marriage law should be loosen now. After 1950,
Indian politician/MLAs are discussing on Hindu Code Bill for last 5 –6 years, till new constitu-
tion had came in effect. A serious debate held on this bill. Some support and some criticised it,
this is why main bill broken in two parts many laws came into light from these parts. The main
objectives of the bill was to give legal permission for divorce, legally registered marriage should
have same recognition as religious marriage get along with it, the property inheritance rights to
daughters. Discussions had been arranged to reduce the problems from this decision such as—
the children from inter caste marriage— their religion and social stability in case parent had not
changed their respective religions. Widow marriage is already accepted by the Hindus as neo
reasonable thought. Widow-Marriage Act 1856, is a law already now after the massive efforts of
famous social reformer Shri Ishwerchand Vidya Sagar.
The Muslims, in India represents similar family system which is the result of interaction be-
tween Islamic law and-Hindu impact on it. This is a universal fact that Muslims in India spe-
cially in Shiya Community a caste structure has developed. Muslims family is like a Hindu
family, Fatherly lineage and Fatherly resident. Most old men runs the family and females, who
lives under veils, lives at home. But unlike Hindu Muslims do not keep property combined, ac-
cording to Muslim inheritance law, it shows father lineage and property distribute after seeing
same tribal matters. Like Hindu family system, Muslim family is also a extended (joint) family
but they do not count distant relatives.

22.4 Forms of Family
The family is not only a stable functional institution and all time active/effective society but can
be seen as “a procedure”. The family as a “procedure”, can be divided into three or four definable
stages, on the basis of available information in India. The first stage is— “Development-Stage”. In
this stage, a child gets developed into a responsible adult of a society. After that “The marriage-
Stage” comes. The child-marriage had an important place into the social structure of rural India,
even in cities, it found in some percentages. The “Pre-Marriage” stage comes before “the mar-
riage” stage of the development stages, like western society and in the Indian tribal society.
In the “Pre-marriage stage”, boys and girls spend time in the houses of one sex group or two
sex groups in the middle India and Naga group, where the people learn all young age related
activities along with sexual training. In the community of Moriya, Gourh, Konyak Nagas, it
is seen that personal contact increases in this stages and so affection and that converted into
marriage programmes. In the urban and rural societies where marriage get settled by parents,
pre-marriage stage does not occur, so is the courtship.

The child takes birth after marriage. This stage is called “after marriage stage:.
This stage is most important for the society. The generation of children, accord-
ing to their age pass through this procedure. In this way, the family is a con-
tinuous process and a society depends on undisturbed continuity and stability
of a family.

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