Like race, kinship is culturally constructed. this means that
a: the educational system is failing to educate people about real, biologically based human relations
b: like race, kinship is a fiction, with no real social consequence
c: it is phenomenon separated from other real aspects of society, such as economics and politics
d: studies of kinship tell us little about people's actual experiences
e: people perceive and define kin relations differently in different cultures, although anthropologists have discovered a limited number of patterns in which people classify their kin
Ans: e: people perceive and define kin relations differently in different cultures, although anthropologists have discovered a limited number of patterns in which people classify their kin
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