Hypergamy and hypogamy:
Under Hypergamy marriage, the women marry a person from equal or higher social status, higher education and higher caste. Hypogamy marriage is nothing but, a man marries a woman from higher caste, higher status and higher education than himself. Here, after marriage woman gets husband’s caste and status. This helps them to lead a prosperous life. The offspring’s have better opportunities.
Isogamy:
Marriage occurs mostly among different sex that is hetero sexual unions, but marriage can be between same-sex also. Isogamy is the marriage between same sex of either woman or man. Now, many societies started accepting same sex marriages. LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, transgender and Queers) often suffer from social identity …show more content…
In this, society is evident in the form of incest taboos (prohibition of mating between relatives). The sexual relation between parent and child and sister and brother is not allowed. In these societies they avoid mating between close kin groups because they produce the offspring who is very weak, lean and genetically harmful. The group with incest taboo has more surviving children than the group with non incest taboo, because incest taboo groups provide healthy offspring. They even avoid mating between familiarity groups, because the children who grown up together may have the sexual interest in one another. They do not choose mate from same age or peer group.
Prescriptive rules:
These rules talks about whom a person can marry in the society. One can see these rules in exogamy marriage and endogamy marriage. Through endogamy, they maintain the purity and belief systems of the group. These marriages stop mixing of biological traits which are strange to each other. On the other hand, through exogamy, the two families come together and start group survival. Because of female infanticide, that is scarcity of woman, people started marriage with other groups or bands. The exogamy practice developed as a spread of incest taboo.
Preferential …show more content…
The parallel cousin is mother’s sister’s child or father’s brother’s child. This type of marriage is rare in many societies. The Cross cousin marriages, is the marriage between the brother and sister’s children. The cross cousin marriages are very common in south Indian societies. There are matrilineal cross cousin marriages and patrilineal cross cousin marriages. Bilateral marriages are one, where individual has choice to choose partner from either patrilineal or matrilineal cross cousin. Levirate marriage is, the man must marry the widow of his childless brother who is deceased to maintain his brother’s line. In this, the man gets his brother’s property. Finally sororate marriage, which is opposite to levirate marriages, is the practice of man marrying the sister of his deceased wife. Sororate also applicable, when a man marries wife’s sister to produce children, such that the children born to them are treated as children of childless
Under Hypergamy marriage, the women marry a person from equal or higher social status, higher education and higher caste. Hypogamy marriage is nothing but, a man marries a woman from higher caste, higher status and higher education than himself. Here, after marriage woman gets husband’s caste and status. This helps them to lead a prosperous life. The offspring’s have better opportunities.
Isogamy:
Marriage occurs mostly among different sex that is hetero sexual unions, but marriage can be between same-sex also. Isogamy is the marriage between same sex of either woman or man. Now, many societies started accepting same sex marriages. LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, transgender and Queers) often suffer from social identity …show more content…
In this, society is evident in the form of incest taboos (prohibition of mating between relatives). The sexual relation between parent and child and sister and brother is not allowed. In these societies they avoid mating between close kin groups because they produce the offspring who is very weak, lean and genetically harmful. The group with incest taboo has more surviving children than the group with non incest taboo, because incest taboo groups provide healthy offspring. They even avoid mating between familiarity groups, because the children who grown up together may have the sexual interest in one another. They do not choose mate from same age or peer group.
Prescriptive rules:
These rules talks about whom a person can marry in the society. One can see these rules in exogamy marriage and endogamy marriage. Through endogamy, they maintain the purity and belief systems of the group. These marriages stop mixing of biological traits which are strange to each other. On the other hand, through exogamy, the two families come together and start group survival. Because of female infanticide, that is scarcity of woman, people started marriage with other groups or bands. The exogamy practice developed as a spread of incest taboo.
Preferential …show more content…
The parallel cousin is mother’s sister’s child or father’s brother’s child. This type of marriage is rare in many societies. The Cross cousin marriages, is the marriage between the brother and sister’s children. The cross cousin marriages are very common in south Indian societies. There are matrilineal cross cousin marriages and patrilineal cross cousin marriages. Bilateral marriages are one, where individual has choice to choose partner from either patrilineal or matrilineal cross cousin. Levirate marriage is, the man must marry the widow of his childless brother who is deceased to maintain his brother’s line. In this, the man gets his brother’s property. Finally sororate marriage, which is opposite to levirate marriages, is the practice of man marrying the sister of his deceased wife. Sororate also applicable, when a man marries wife’s sister to produce children, such that the children born to them are treated as children of childless