Understanding Social Institutions
Marriage: H.M. Johnson has defined marriage as a stable relationship in which a man and a women are socially permitted, without loss of standing in community, to have children.
Affinal Relation: Relationship by marriage like husband and wife.
Exogamy: Marriage outside a defined group e.g. gotra, village.
Endogamy : Marriage within a defened group. e.g. kinship, caste.
Hypogamy: Marriage of daughter to a man of lower caste class.
Hypergamy : Marriage of daughter with a man of higher class or caste.
Taboo : Prohibited conduct or behaviours.
Consanguineous Relation: Relationship blood like brother and sister.
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(i) Folkways (ii) Family
(iii) Nuclear family (iv) Joint Family
(v) Kinship
(i) Patrilocal (ii) Matrilined (iii) Patrilineal (iv) Matrilocal (v) Gotra (vi) Sapindara (vii) Fraternal Polyandry (vii) Non-fraternal polyandry (ix) Socialisation (x) Extended Family.
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