Examples of endogamy in the following topics:
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- According to this view, the incest taboo is not necessarily a universal, but it is likely to arise and become stricter under cultural circumstances that favor exogamy over endogamy; it likely to become more lax under circumstances that favor endogamy.
- Societies that are stratified often prescribe different degrees of endogamy.
- Endogamy is the opposite of exogamy; it refers to the practice of marriage between members of the same social group.
- Inequality between ethnic groups and races also correlates with endogamy.
- Class, caste, ethnic and racial endogamy typically coexists with family exogamy and prohibitions against incest.
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- Caste is an elaborate and complex social system that combines some or all elements of endogamy, hereditary transmission of occupation, social class, social identity, hierarchy, exclusion, and power.
- Other Indian scriptures suggest ancient Indian law was not rigid about endogamy within castes.
- Caste endogamy wasn't limited to royalty; in Finland, for example, it was a crime—until modern times—to seduce and defraud into marriage by declaring a false social class.
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- Another factor that leads to cultural variations in relationships tied to family forms is attitudes toward endogamy.
- Endogamy is the practice of marrying, becoming romantically involved, or engaging in sexual relations within a social group.
- Cultures that practice endogamy require relationships between specified social groups, classes, or ethnicities.
- Many people tend to develop relationships with members of their own social group, but there are some societies that practice endogamy very strictly and as part of their moral values, traditions, or religious beliefs.
- Endogamy is a common practice among displaced cultures attempting to make roots in new countries as it encourages group solidarity and ensures greater control over group resources (which may be important to preserve where a group is attempting to establish itself within an alien culture).
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- 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.
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- This is a practice called endogamy, and is common in many class and casted-based societies, like India.
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- Anthropologists refer to these restrictions as endogamy.
- Racist laws adopted by some societies in the past, such as Nazi-era w:Germany, apartheid-era South Africa and most of the United States in the first half of the 20th century, which prohibited marriage between persons of different races, could also be considered examples of endogamy.
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- Every large society contains ethnic minorities: subgroups that share a common heritage, which often consists of a shared language, culture (often including a religion), or ideology that stresses common ancestry or endogamy.