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Kinship is a way of reckoning who is related to whom- how and why. It is believed by scholars, policy makers, and ordinary people alike to be the basic building block of society. It's like a social organism- whose structures and components function together to ensure the efficiency, equilibrium, and continuity of society. Although we believe that kinship is rooted in blood, and that it is based on love, affection, and respect, it is very intricately tied down to economics. This essay argues that the financial dependence and the resources to support the family's needs reinforce the authoritative figure in the family, and in society. Financial relations determine the degrees of love, affection, and respect of the family members for each other, the social status of an individual, and also the social boundaries.
Contemporary fantasy book writer and the New York Times Best Selling author Jim Butcher writes, “When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family.” Family is the institutional form of kinship, weaving together interrelationships among individuals. The present age is marked not only by the importance of family as an economic and welfare institution but also by its increasing importance as an arrangement for socializing and raising children and for the psychological support of the adults. Towards the beginning of the documentary film on trans-gender people, ‘Southern Comfort”, one of the characters Robert said, “Family is the core, the stone. It holds everything together.” There has been a wide disintegration of large kin groups and an intensification of relationships within the nuclear family. With the process of industrialization and urbanization, kinship i...

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...ationships, the kin expect the reciprocity to be materialistic or that it has some monetary value. In our society, when someone comes from abroad, he or she is treated as though they are some kind gods or goddesses. During the time they stay in the country, people become busy in making them happy. One of the main reasons behind this kind of behavior is the hope that the individual will help them or their family members to shift in abroad.
Kinship is fundamental component of social life. Our kin give us a sense of belonging by behaving and acting in relation to each other, and often at in particularly intimate and meaningful ways. But it is also true that kinship is very closely related to economic liability. Economic status and monetary resources ascertain the authoritative figure, and determines the positions, duties and responsibilities of other members.