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Unit 3: Basic Terms and Concepts: Inheritance, Succession, Consanguinity and Affinity
Sukanya Das, Lovely Professional University

Unit 3: Basic Terms and Concepts: Notes

Inheritance, Succession,
Consanguinity and Affinity

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction

3.1 Types of Kinship
3.2 Categories of Kinship
3.3 Succession

3.4 Summary
3.5 Keywords
3.6 Review Questions
3.7 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, students will be able to:
• Understand consanguinity under kinship.
• Unerstand affinity under kinship.
• Know about the concept of succession or inheritance.
• Know the meaning of inheritance.

Introduction

Kinship is very important in a society. Study of coinheritance, pregnancy, fatherhood, sociali-
sation, uterine brotherhood, etc., basic of life as well as human behaviour, is the study of kin-
ship. A man becomes a relative of many people of the society just after taking birth. Blood and
marriage based relations are more lasting and close relationships. These are the result of social
interaction by humans. We include such relations in kinship by which humans are bound and
are accepted by the society.

3.1 Types of Kinship

In social relations such relations are universal and basic relations which are based on reproduc-
tion. Two types of relations emerge from the desire of reproduction—
1. Relations between parents and children and brothers-sisters—we call them consanguine-
ous relations.

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