Definition
Kinship is a “system of social organization based on real or putative family ties,” according to Encyclopædia Britannica.
And when it involves the social fabric which ties families and societies, the sociologists define it as, “Kinship is the most universal and basic of all human relationships and is based on ties of blood, marriage, or adoption” (Crossman 2019, p. 1).
Introduction
Among all social mammals, humans are organized communities of relationships that are focused around everlasting unions between family ties (Koster 2018). When younger siblings co-reside in a family with elder siblings, relationship between them may have significant effect on their growth and developmental, psyche, or behavior (Nitsch et al. 2012). Though social ties through common ancestry are among the oldest forms of sociality where young are nurtured by elder siblings, the psychology of kinship across human societies regularly co-opts sentiments geared toward...
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Karmakar, M. (2020). Kin Elders Encourage Youth to Cooperate. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1508-1
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