The Family, Household, and Minor Lineage of the Konkomba

Africa ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-249
Author(s):  
David Tait
Keyword(s):  
Extended Family ◽  
Household Head ◽  
Total Group ◽  
Family Household ◽  
The People ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Family ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Family And Household ◽  
Opening Paragraph

Opening ParagraphThis paper first seeks to show how far the actual forms of the Konkomba family and household coincide with their forms as conceived by the people themselves. The second part (which will appear in a later number of this journal) analyses some of the functions of these units of organization. By function, I mean the relation of the household to certain aspects of Konkomba life: namely, the household as a unit of production and consumption, as a unit of social control, as a ritual unit, and so on. The term ‘household’ refers to the total group of persons living together in one compound (letʃeni), which is a cluster of round houses distributed about a central space and linked by a low wall (see Fig. I). The head of a household (letʃendaa) is the senior man, the husband and the father of the family that is the nucleus of the household. This may be an elementary or a polygynous family; or it may be an expanded family consisting of a number of brothers and their wives, sons, and unmarried daughters; or it may be an extended family, consisting of a man, his wives, their sons, sons' wives and children, and their unmarried daughters. To this nucleus other kin are added and it will be shown that these additional members are always either members of the minor lineage group of the household head or wives or widows of members.

scholarly journals Patrilineal traditional family: Examples of Serbia and Bulgaria

2014 ◽  
Vol 94 (3) ◽  
pp. 83-116
Author(s):  
Ljubica Rajkovic ◽  
Vesna Miletic-Stepanovic
Keyword(s):  
Extended Family ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
East European ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Family Household ◽  
Traditional Family ◽  
European Model ◽  
Family And Household ◽  
Similarities And Differences

The paper aims to investigate from comparative and sociological perspective the similarities between the roles of family and household in social development of Bulgaria and Serbia. The focus of the study is placed on the similarities and differences between the traditional phase of development and the industrial, modern one. Modern society as a whole is defined as untransformed and subject to re-traditionalization. The investigation rests on the assumption that within East European model, the traditional family/household is a phenomenon linked to the 19th and 20th centuries, but not to the 21st one. However, the Balkan extended family/household retains the influence it had in the traditional phase of development. In the traditional phase, the extended family commune (zadruga), characteristic of the Balkans, played an essential role for survival. In modern societies, it regains its importance for survival during social and economic crises; however, it also poses traditionally experienced risks concerning substantial deterioration of the position of women.

Patrilocality and Early Marital Co-residence in Rural China, 1955–85

1992 ◽  
Vol 130 ◽  
pp. 378-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Lavely ◽  
Xinhua Ren
Keyword(s):  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Chinese Family ◽  
Family Farming ◽  
Family Household ◽  
Family Economy ◽  
The Family ◽  
Extended Households

The story of the rural Chinese family household in the post-Mao period is generally told in one of three ways, which might be labelled modernization, tradition restored, and demographic determinism. Modernization parallels the family theories of classical sociology: economic development and education tend to undermine extended family living arrangements by instilling nuclear family preferences, while the relaxation of migration restrictions allows young men to seek their fortune away from home. “Tradition restored” sees collectivization as having undermined the foundation of the extended family household, the family economy. The return of family farming has, in this view, restored the conditions under which the extended family can flourish. The demographic determinisi view assumes that family preferences persist but that demographic structures change. Rising life expectancies and declining fertility should increase rates of family extension, since smaller families mean that there will be fewer brothers available to live with a surviving parent. Thus as the birth control cohorts come of age, the prevalence of extended households should increase.

scholarly journals AHL DALAM AL-QUR'AN PERSPEKTIF SEMANTIK 'AISYAH BINTU SYATHI'

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-130
Author(s):  
Muhammad Rosyid ◽  
Muhammad Anwar Idris
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
The Core ◽  
Frequent Word ◽  
Original Meaning ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Ideal

 Arabic usually use the word al-usrahor al-‘ailahto refer to family. However, the Qur’an also employs some different words to describe family, namely ahl, ‘asyirah, rahtu,alu, qurbaand ruknu. This article aims to examine the word ahl. This is based on the fact that ahlis the most frequent word mentioned theQur’an to refer to the family. Using the semantic analysis proposed by ‘Aisya bint al-Syati’, this article shows that the original meaning of the word ahlis “entitled”and “appropriate”.Itscontextual meaning, however,might refer to the people of the book (ahl al-Kitab), residents (al-sakin), followers (qawm al-Nabī), people who are entitled or reserve the right(al-mustahaq), the core family (usrah), and clans or extended family (‘ailah). This article contributes to the ideal of building a family. By referring to the meaning of ahl,the family should be correctly and appropriately built so as to achieve happiness.

scholarly journals Senior Citizens and Their Roles in Family and Household

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
S. M. Ayoob
Keyword(s):  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Senior Citizens ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
Family Type ◽  
Role Taking ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family And Household

The family is considered as the most important and outstanding primary group in the society. The extended family type is diminishing in the modern era due to multiple and unavoidable reasons. However in some countries, people give their support to preserve extended family system at least keeping their senior citizens in the same household. Senior citizens also play active roles by supporting the family members in numerous ways. This study was conducted to identify the living arrangements, roles played by the senior citizens in family and household and the reasons behind the active role taking behavior among senior citizens. Out of 20 Divisional Secretariat Divisions in Ampara district, 08 Divisional Secretariat Divisions where Muslims predominantly live have been selected as the study area using simple random sampling method. The sample size is 392. The primary data was collected from key informant interviews, case studies and focus group discussions. The study highlighted that 95% of the senior citizens in the study area are living with their family members. Maintaining household activities, guiding the family members, providing counselling, providing security, socialization, mediating, providing monetary support and mobile role are the major roles played by senior citizens. The reasons for this active role taking behaviour are physical fitness and healthy lifestyle of senior citizens, disaster situation, economic condition, loneliness and isolation, lack of organizational structure and social recognition in study area. Beyond their old age, the contribution of senior citizens to the family is immeasurable.

The Family, Household, and Minor Lineage of the Konkomba

Africa ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 332-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Tait
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Family Household ◽  
Major Lineage ◽  
The Family ◽  
Group A ◽  
Opening Paragraph ◽  
A Minor ◽  
The Way

Opening ParagraphSince the household contains members drawn from the larger minor lineage group, we may expect to find that it functions within the framework of the latter. This is indeed the way in which Konkomba think of the household—as part of something larger, as something that is now isolated from and now merged in the larger group. The phrase ‘Ti je mfum mba’ (we are one) may refer to a household, a minor lineage group, a major lineage group, a clan, a tribe or the whole Konkomba people. When speaking of co-operation they speak in terms of the minor lineage group rather than in terms of the household. We shall try to differentiate the role of the household as a unit of reciprocal help, of social control, and of instruction, &c.

!Kung Bushman Bands

Africa ◽  
1960 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorna Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family ◽  
Opening Paragraph

Opening ParagraphIn this paper I describe the band organization of the !Kung Bushmen. The !Kung word n//a besi was translated by the interpreters as ‘people who live together’. I use the word band for n//a besi, meaning by band, in this connexion, the grouping in !Kung social organization which is above the family grouping. It is a grouping precisely of the people who live together.

ECONOMIC FUNCTION OF FAMILY HOUSEHOLDS IN THE NEW ECONOMY

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vira Kostyuk ◽  
◽  
Olga Bezpalenko ◽  
Artem Kostyuk ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
New Economy ◽  
Family Household ◽  
Market Participants ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family And Household ◽  
Investment Tool ◽  
Reproductive Processes ◽  
Business Exchange ◽  
Economic Function

The article revealed the essence and analyzed the functions of family households in the new economy. The economic basis of all reproductive processes that determine functioning and development of the new economy is associated with the category of family household, which combines all features and functions of the two categories - family and household. The family household performs many functions, but generalizing it can be defined as the reproduction of various aspects of their lives. Among its main functions it is necessary to highlight the economic, which is based on the full implementation of all other functions. After all, the functioning of a separate family household directly depends on economic provision. Implementation of the economic functions of this household unit provide production (family business), exchange with other market participants, consumption, the formation of the required level of consumer demand, savings and investment, solving various household problems, the formation and reproduction of human capital. Manufacturing, as one of the economic functions of the household, should be viewed in two respects: income- generating activities; self-care and homework within one's own household to meet the needs of only its members. It is noted that the result of the functioning of family households as active independent actors of the new market economy and the main socio-economic institution of society is the formation of savings, which, in turn, is a powerful investment tool.

scholarly journals Sumane Bewawo Hasi Ritual: A symbolic act respecting the ancestors in South Nias Regency

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Potensi Juniarti Hia ◽  
Firman Yamonaha Zega
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Symbolic Interaction ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Interaction Theory ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Symbolic Interaction Theory

Sumane bewawӧ hasi is one of the rituals in the funeral ceremony originating from the Nias Tribe that is engaged in by the people in ӧri To’ene, ӧri Mazinӧ, and ӧri Onolalu in South Nias. This study aimed to determine the symbolic meaning of each of the series of rituals to do with the giving of sumane bewawӧ hasi. This study used a qualitative descriptive research method and symbolic interaction theory. The data collection in this study consisted of interviews, observations, and documentation techniques. Furthermore, the data analysis used data reduction, data analysis, and drawing conclusions. The result of this research shows that sumane bewawӧ hasi is a symbolic act that specifically aims to pay homage to the parents or ancestors as a symbol of separation. It can also involve famolakhӧmi ya’ira sofulo (glory/dignity of the community) and appreciation of the people attending the funeral. This ritual also aims to strengthen the kinship in the family (fahasara dӧdӧ si fatifusӧ) as a form of togetherness, celebrating the involvement of the entire extended family in the implementation of the religious and familial events. The implementation process consists of several stages: orahua sifatalifusӧ, fame’e sumane and the implementation of hӧlihӧli Sumane.

Nine Problems (and Even More Solutions) for Powers Accounts of Possibility

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Pawl
Keyword(s):  
The People ◽  
The Family ◽  
Short Call

One way of putting powers to work is to use them to ground (at least some) modal truths. One might hold that truths of possibility are true because of the powers of objects. For instance, that it is possible that one more person be in this room is true because of the ambulatory powers of the people in the adjoining rooms. That it is possible that Slow Steve run a fifteen-minute mile is true because of the locomotive powers that Steve has (perhaps along with other powers, such as his respiratory powers). Call the family of stronger or weaker views which hold that possibility claims are true because of powers the ‘Powers Accounts of Possibility,’ or ‘Powers Accounts’ for short. Call a proponent of a Powers Account a ‘Powers Accountant.’ In this paper I present nine objections to Powers Accounts of Possibility and show how a Powers Accountant can respond to them. I begin by providing an exceedingly strong Powers Account and offering three objections to it. The objections will prove useful for forming a more moderate Powers Account. I then subject the more moderate Powers Account to six further objections. In the end, I vindicate a Powers Account of Possibility against all nine objections.

scholarly journals Family planning program under low fertility: where to go

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baochang Gu
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Unmet Needs ◽  
Family Planning Program ◽  
Population Control ◽  
First Century ◽  
Low Fertility ◽  
Planning Program ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family

AbstractThis commentary is intended to take China as a case to discuss the mission of the family planning program under low fertility scenario. After a brief review of the initiation of family planning program in the 1970s, as well as the reorientation of family planning program since ICPD in 1994, it will focus on the new mission for the family planning program under low fertility scenario in the twenty-first century, in particular concerning the issue of induced abortion among the others. Given the enormous evidence of unmet needs in reproductive health as identified in the discussion, it is argued that family planning programmes are in fact even more needed than ever before under low-fertility scenario, and should not be abandoned but strengthened, which clearly has nothing to do to call back to the program for population control in the 1970s–1980s, and nor even go back to the program for “two reorientations” in the 1990s, but to aim to serving the people to fulfill their reproductive health and reproductive rights in light of ICPD and SDGs, and to become truly integral component of “Healthy China 2030” Strategy.

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