Lewis Henry Morgan

Lewis Henry Morgan discussed in Ancient Society the three stages of society: savagery, barbarism, and civilization. However, Morgan also focused on social bonds, such a family. The word consanguinity is a word that Morgan uses to describe the stages of growth within the family. This pertains to marriage and other forms of familial bonds, such as blood. In describing the familial bonds (through blood and marriage), he uses the roles of the society to explain the bonds of family. It is traced through property, the organization of a property’s unit, the governmental system, etc. It has been observed in the times of barbarism, where territorial gain was through marriage, which resulted in family, thus creating consanguinity. This was practiced through domestic life/ house life. Thus, blood was not the only aspect necessary for kinship! …show more content…
Brown was known for structural functionalism, which is stating that society is like an organ with different parts working together. With the organ’s parts working together (such as in a society where people are doing their jobs), it is healthy, meaning that society is healthy and harmonious. Each person in a society has a ‘role(s)’ to play. That is that individual’s personhood. Those individual’s roles can be contributing to the social structure/organization of a society. Structures are arrangements of groups (friends, co-workers, dyads, etc.) but organizations are permanent. Dyads are father and son, or mother and daughter. Through these structures and organizations, societies can