Kinship: Terminology and Structure (Hmong World, 1, Yale
University Southeast Asian Studies, 1986) Terms for members of a
family Second degree relationship terminology Third degree
relatives Biologically distant relatives According to Graburn
(1971: 2), a society structures its members into positions based
on a number of principles. The many persons to whom an
individual may relate are classified into categories which
determine their behaviour expectations towards one another and
maintain them together as a group. The totality of these
expectations and culturally determined relationships forms the
group's social structure. Thus, an understanding of a society's
structure necessitates the examination of the ways in which its
members form themselves into social groups, the relationships
between the groups, and between individual members, as well as
the types of ideal and actual behaviour found among them.
Kinship is one of the principles by which human societies
develop their social structure. As defined by Murd