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    Kin Selection Theories

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    1 Describe how the authors use previous research to explain the importance of their study. Close relatives should gain inclusive fitness benefits according to kin selection theory. Nevertheless, the relationship between kin and non-kin, dominant and subdominant of wild fish such as Atlantic salmon is unclear. Recent research stated that related individuals show close relationship with another. And other study showed that related fish is not likely to be related (Griffiths and Armstrong 2002).…

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    power and authority within many nations across Turtle Island. Women’s roles in agriculture, material culture, and kinship made them powerful figures in their communities. Many matrilineal and matrilocal nations provided women with unique authority over kinship and relationship with land. Many cultures also viewed women as symbols of peace and diplomacy because of their authority over kinship. These cultural gender norms greatly differed from Euro-American gender roles which created tensions…

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    Golden Girls Family Roles

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    relationship. Other characters take on this type of motherly role throughout the show, but none more than these two characters. As far as functions go, the characters of the show take on all manners of different functions. Most notably, the function of kinship and personality stabilizers. The show focuses on life in the “golden years”, as well as the topic of divorce and what it means to be afamily. Each character has their own forms of emotional baggage. This is why each character becomes a…

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    incorporating the norms and values of society and learning to perform social roles. There have been numerous controversies as to how continuity and/or change have impacted the development of personal and social identity in individuals. Family and Kinship, and School as well as are agents of socialization that are believed to influence the development of personal and social identity. Personal identity is the concept you develop about yourself that evolves over the course of your life, where as…

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    Barry Wellman

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    communities are now more tied to secondary forms of connection such as organizations being based on jobs rather than shared memories. On the other hand, saved communities are considered to be dense networks that are focused more on neighborhoods, kinship, and tightly bound relationships within a community setting. Also, unlike both lost and liberated communities, saved communities make neighborhood their primary analyses rather than secondary, as well as demonstrating continued vitality of…

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    large groups of men gathered in intense prayer or battle. Like other citizens of the globalized corporate/consumer culture, educated Americans are often widely traveled but not deeply rooted in obligation to a particular physical place, a faith or a kinship. Most of the 7 billion people on Earth today are not such modern atoms. As in the past, they live in territorial ethnic groups and language communities —…

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    the ideal. The modern family is continuously changing and now, there is a greater diversity of people which makes for a greater diversity of families - same sex couples, single-parents, stepfamilies, and etcetera. An anthropologist may say that “Kinship is an emic, culturally constructed concept” and is a “basic social, economic and political building block” (Gambold, 2014). In relation…

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    The word ”sex” had been used to define the differences between men and women until the late twentieth century. On English speaking countries women were referred to as “the sex” in the ninetieth century. This type of labeling was reinforcing the idea that women were a sex and that men were just people. For centuries feminists have pointed out the differences between men and women are created by social and cultural norms just as much as they are by biology. Sociologist John Mooney adopted the word…

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    Immigrant Children

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    can prevent them from seeking out professional services, public services or trusting social work professionals. They can lose their children to the child welfare system and then not understand requirements to getting their children back or having kinship care due to legal status. These families if lacking in the English language also are at the biggest risk of being exploited in the labor division with undesirable jobs, lower income, and hostile work environments (Pine & Drachman, 2005). The…

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    This sub-section outlines the land tenure and kinship traits of the Wampup and Gabsongkeg villagers (Wampar group). As highlighted in Section 8.2.2, the Geaganson and Orognaron tribe own most of the land through patrilineal lineage. Lineages claimed areas where their ancestors settled when they came to the Lower Markham Valley. Later during the colonial era, the Australian Administration claimed some of these lands belonging to the Geaganson and Orognaron tribe for agricultural usage especially…

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