Gellner’s concept of an ideal kinship language anticipated later developments in methods for recording kinship connections, and also sparked a controversy about the relation between biological and social kinship. Though the debate has moved on, the topic has remained controversial. I argue that the idea of an ideal kinship language offers a way of analyzing the relationship between alternative ...

Using methods of experimental cognitive psychology, we tested the hypothesis that attitude similarity serves as a heuristic cue signaling kinship, which may motivate kin-recognition responses (e.g., prosocial behavior) even to unrelated individuals. The experiment employed a reaction-time methodology to assess cognitive associations between specific target individuals and kinship cognitions. Re...

Introduction. Relevance of the research problems family values is currently not decreasing. This due to actively ongoing transformational processes in society, which significantly affect existence and interpretation values. The article presents results an empirical study illustrating triad «matrimony-parenthood-kinship». Methods. An form a questionnaire was conducted June-July 2022. object are ...

There have been growing calls for more education in genetics for the public and in schools. However, studies of the public, school children, and those who have received genetic counselling show that understanding of scientific genetics is very limited. A hypothesis to explain this limited understanding is proposed and tested. It is argued that there is a widespread lay knowledge of inheritance ...

This paper results from a study of the phenomenon born in Batak Toba ethnic group. Birth society is joy together. Not only family but even surrounding community also rejoice. Toba’s cultural values are source everyday behavior kinship system. Kinship related to birth, which determines position community. aimed assess process giving birth and some rites performed rarely tribe today. The type res...

The present study provides evidence of how positive social interaction and the perception psychological kinship are mechanisms by which identity fusion with host country is associated well-being Venezuelan migrants in Chile. sample consisted 323 migrants, whom 147 (45.5%) were men. participants residents city Santiago, variables assessed well-being, country, interaction, kinship. Structural equ...

Birth is not merely a biological event; it is also a social event in that it creates relationships. As a consequence of reproductive technologies, the boundaries between the biological and social basis of kinship have become blurred. Reproductive technologies challenge previously held cultural constructions of kinship and bring about new kinds of social relations in that kinship boundaries are ...