This investigation is about the cultural, social, and legal factors influencing on the amount of dowry. Hence, we used structuralism theory, functionalism, symbolic interactionism, and reasonable selection, theory of mass society and media power and religiosity theory. Therefore, for this topic we examined cluster random sampling of the 384 married men and women of 18 to 35 years in Qom. The re...

If humans are sensitive to the costs and benefits of favouring kin in different circumstances, a strong prediction is that cues of relatedness will have a positive effect on prosocial feelings, but a negative effect on sexual attraction. Indeed, positive effects of facial resemblance (a potential cue of kinship) have been demonstrated in prosocial contexts. Alternatively, such effects may be ow...

Abstract This article examines the employment of kinship relations in sustaining plantation economy and perpetuating precariousness child labourers who later became temporary workers tea plantations Kerala, South India. Kinship ties locked diverse into a moral obligation care that could easily be manipulated by management as form labour control. Plantation capitalism, therefore, sustained itsel...

Kinship verification from facial images is an interesting and challenging problem. The current algorithms on this topic typically represent faces with multiple low-level features, followed by a shallow learning model. However, these general manual features cannot well discover information implied in facial images for kinship verification, and thus even current best algorithms are not satisfying...

This article, one of a series, approaches the topics of marriage and kinship through a revitalized kinetic structural approach that shifts the primary focus from abstract models of rules, terminologies, attitudes and norms to exploration of concrete relations in a population, analyzed graph-theoretically in their full complexity as networks. Network representation using the graphe de parenté (s...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the parental relationship of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) from an extended pedigree with extensive genealogical information up to the middle of the 18th century. DESIGN Multiple sclerosis is a complex disease resulting from genetic and environmental factors. Parent-of-origin effect, a phenomenon when the same allele may express differently depending on the se...

While the individuals chosen for a genome-wide association study (GWAS) may not be closely related to each other, there can be distant (cryptic) relationships that confound the evidence of disease association. These cryptic relationships violate the GWAS assumption regarding the independence of the subjects’ genomes, and failure to account for these relationships results in both false positives...

KINSHIP TERMS AND CONCEPTS PRINCIPAL SOURCES: DT = Donald Tuzin (1976) A Glossary of Kinship Terms and Concepts. Unpublished ms. ES = Ernest L. Schusky (1965) Manual for Kinship Analysis. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. GK = Julius Gould & William L. Kolb, eds., (1964) A Dictionary of the Social Sciences. New York: The Free Press. GPM = George Peter Murdock (1949) Social Structure New Yor...