Home›Subcategories›Kinship InstitutionsSubcategoriesKinship Institutions23 of 153 entries in Institutions and Social Structures. Click any to see everything it connects to.Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextSociety and Culture Atlas. "Kinship Institutions." Accessed September 4, 2026. https://dev-society.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/institution/kinship-institutions.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextSociety and Culture Atlas. (n.d.). Kinship Institutions. Retrieved September 4, 2026, from https://dev-society.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/institution/kinship-institutionsCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{societyandcultureatlas-kinship-institutions, author = {Society and Culture Atlas}, title = {Kinship Institutions}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-society.interactiveatlas.org/subcategories/institution/kinship-institutions}, note = {Accessed September 4, 2026} }Copy BibTeXReference and ClassificationDevelopingInstitutions organizing family and descent at the level of society-wide institution rather than a specific named kinship rule or terminology: marriage as a socially recognized union, and the family as the basic kin-based institution of society. Belongs here: an institution-level account of family or marriage as a social structure. Does not belong here: a specific descent rule, residence pattern or terminology system, which belongs to the kinship-system type's own subcategory tree under Kinship and Family Systems rather than here.Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)BrowseCompareSelect all 23AdoptionKinship Institutions1 linkAvunculateKinship Institutions1 linkBride ServiceKinship Institutions2 linksChinese Lineage System (Zongzu)Kinship Institutions2 linksCivil UnionKinship Institutions3 linksClan SystemKinship Institutions1 linkCommon-Law MarriageKinship Institutions4 linksConcubinageKinship Institutions1 linkDowry SystemKinship Institutions3 linksFosterageKinship Institutions1 linkGodparenthoodKinship Institutions1 linkHindu Joint Family SystemKinship Institutions1 linkIe SystemKinship Institutions1 linkTwo Linked RingsMarriageKinship Institutions15 linksOhanaKinship Institutions1 linkPolygamyKinship Institutions1 linkSame-Sex MarriageKinship Institutions1 linkScottish Clan SystemKinship Institutions1 linkSegmentary Lineage SystemKinship Institutions3 linksSomali Clan SystemKinship Institutions1 linkRoof over Three Linked FiguresThe FamilyKinship Institutions6 linksWhanauKinship Institutions1 linkZadrugaKinship Institutions1 linkComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year