Kinship as social structure, early notes on constructs and virtual reality

Abstract

I shall begin this paper with a confession in the sense that in order for a sociology student to write a paper that is anthropological s/he still needs to go back to his theoretical roots that rank more towards the structures that we have been immersed in. Such theorists as Radcliffe-Brown, Gellmer, Fox and Rivers give us an interesting view of the icing on the cake that we have been given reason to admire and hope for a piece in the near future. The anthropology writers have a cake of their own, in their own perspective, and sociology writers as I shall later mention may altogether acknowledge each others` writeups, but it all pertains to the student to listen, read and compare. An anthropology course helps to make us understand where most of our sociologically-conditioned structures came from. Robert K. Merton mentions social structures, but it must be the anthropologists who inform us where most structures originate and which are basic for human survival.