MARRIAGE, FAMILY AND KINSHIP

Paper Code: 
DSOC 501 (b)
Credits: 
6
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Outcomes(COs):

 

Course outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

 
 

On completion of this course, the students will be able to;

CO23: Summarize the characteristics of marriage, family and kinship

CO24: Identify diverse practices in various social systems of society

CO25: Examine contemporary concerns in the fields of marriage, family and kinship

Interactive Lectures, Power Point Presentations, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Self- learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

  

 

18.00
  • Marriage: Meaning, Forms and Functions
  • Contemporary Issues in Marriage: New Reproductive Technologies,
    Marriage Migration

 

 

18.00
  • Families and Household:
  • Joint Family: Concept, Features, Types and Changing Trends
  • Reimagining Families

 

 

18.00
  • Family and Kinship: Choice and Regulation in Marriage, Power and
    Discrimination in the Family

 

18.00

Kinship: Concept, Types and Usages

18.00
  • Descent, Alliance:  Descent, Filiations, Complementary Filiations,
    Marriage, Alliance

 

Essential Readings: 
  • Radcliffe-Brown, A. R. and D. Forde (eds.), 1950, African Systems of Kinship and Marriage, London: Oxford University Press, Introduction, pp.1-39.
  • Dumont, L., 1968, ‘Marriage Alliance’, in D. Shills (ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, U.S.A.: Macmillan and Free Press, pp.19-23.

 

References: 
  • Fortes, M., 1970, ‘The Structure of Unilineal Descent Groups’, in M. Fortes, Time and Social Structure and Other Essays, University of London: The Athlone Press, pp. 67-95.
  • Leach, E.R., 1961,‘Polyandry, Inheritance and the Definition of Marriage with Particular Reference to Sinhalese Customary Law’, in E. R. Leach (ed.), Rethinking Anthropology, London: The Athlone Press, pp. 105-113.
  • Sharma, U., 1993, ‘Dowry in North India: Its Consequences for Women’, in Patricia Uberoi (ed.), Family, Kinship and Marriage in India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 341-356.
  • Parkin, R. and L. Stone, 2004, ‘General Introduction’, in R. Parkin and L. Stone (eds.), Kinship and Family: An Anthropological Reader, U.S.A.: Blackwell, pp. 1-23.
  • Schneider, D. M., 2004(1972), ‘What is Kinship All About?’, in R. Parkin and L. Stone (eds.), Kinship and Family: An Anthropological Reader, U.S.A.: Blackwell, pp. 257-274.
  • Carsten, J., 2004,‘Introduction’          in         After    Kinship, Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, pp.1-30.

 

Academic Session: 
2023-24
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