kin

(noun)

Race; family; breed; kind.

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Examples of kin in the following topics:

  • Visualizing multiplex relations

    • Alternatively, one can "bundle" the relations into qualitative types and represent them with a single graph using line of different colors or styles (e.g. kin tie = red; work tie = blue; kin and work tie = green).

  • Energy Conservation

  • Evolutionary Psychology

    • Other adaptations might include the abilities to infer others' emotions, to discern kin from non-kin, to identify and prefer healthier mates, to cooperate with others, and so on.

  • Multiplex data basics

    • For another example, we could combine multiple relations to create qualitative types: 1 = kin only, 2 = co-worker only, 3 = both kin and co-worker, and 4 = neither kin nor co-worker.

  • Interest Groups

    • Foreign policy interest groups often overlap with so-called "ethnic" interest groups, as they try to influence the foreign policy and, to a lesser extent, the domestic policy of the United States for the benefit of the foreign "ethnic kin" or homeland with whom respective ethnic groups identify.

  • Race and Genetics

    • Often, due to practices of group endogamy, allele frequencies cluster locally around kin groups and lineages, or by national, cultural, or linguistic boundaries - giving a detailed degree of correlation between genetic clusters and population groups when considering many alleles simultaneously.

  • Categorical REGE for directed binary data (Wasserman-Faust directed data)

    • Our example will be of a binary graph; the algorithm, however, can also deal with multi-valued nominal data (e.g. "1" = friend, "2" = kin, "3" = co-worker, etc.).

  • Sampling ties

    • We can know, for example, that some actors have many close friends and kin, and others have few.
    • For example, if we identify each of the alters connected to an ego by a friendship relation as "kin," "co-worker," "member of the same church," etc., we can build up a picture of the networks of social positions (rather than the networks of individuals) in which egos are embedded.
    • Such an approach, of course, assumes that such categories as "kin" are real and meaningful determinants of patterns of interaction.

  • Mate Selection

    • In some communities, partner selection is an individual decision, while in others, it is a collective decision made by the partners' kin groups.

  • Unmarried Mothers

    • Many seek assistance by living with another adult, such as a relative, fictive kin, or significant other.