F K L Chit Hlaing
Biographic Data
| ID | 284569 |
|---|---|
| NAME | F K L Chit Hlaing |
| GIVEN NAMES | F K L Chit |
| FAMILY NAME | Hlaing |
| SIGNATURE | HLAING F K L C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Why Marriage
Marriage is not founded straightforwardly upon procreation. Rather, marriage is universally - not withstanding groups such as the Mosuo of China lacking institutionalized marriage - a contractua l relationship legitimating a woman's childbearing and giving her offspring social identity. While a child-bearing woman may simply take on the motherhood role, the same is not true for fatherhood. Rather, marriage defines a male conceptually as father fo…
The Place of Kinship in the Social System
This papers examines the recent controversy as to whether there is any universally defined domain of kinship in sociocultural systems from the point of view of the philosophy of science, in particular, the classical positivism (e.g., of Radcliffe-Brown and of Murdock) that I show to have motivated the question. It also examines the American version of the controversy, as with Schneider, and shows that, again, the question arises because of essent…
The Dynamics of Kachin 'Chieftaincy' in Southwestern China and Northern Burma
Formalism and Empiricism
I am concerned with the distinction between data processing, modeling and actual theory formation, with the generating of empirically interpretable additional theorems, and in particular how formalization, far from abstracting away from data, makes one look at levels of detail one never before even noticed.I shall begin by examining a conjecture (due to my pupil Zhang Wenyi) about the formalism for distinguishing crowds and ‘groups’ from corporat…
Why Marriage
Marriage is not founded straightforwardly upon procreation. Rather, marriage is universally - not withstanding groups such as the Mosuo of China lacking institutionalized marriage - a contractua l relationship legitimating a woman's childbearing and giving her offspring social identity. While a child-bearing woman may simply take on the motherhood role, the same is not true for fatherhood. Rather, marriage defines a male conceptually as father fo…
The Dynamics of Kachin 'Chieftaincy' in Southwestern China and Northern Burma
The Place of Kinship in the Social System
This papers examines the recent controversy as to whether there is any universally defined domain of kinship in sociocultural systems from the point of view of the philosophy of science, in particular, the classical positivism (e.g., of Radcliffe-Brown and of Murdock) that I show to have motivated the question. It also examines the American version of the controversy, as with Schneider, and shows that, again, the question arises because of essent…
Formalism and Empiricism
I am concerned with the distinction between data processing, modeling and actual theory formation, with the generating of empirically interpretable additional theorems, and in particular how formalization, far from abstracting away from data, makes one look at levels of detail one never before even noticed.I shall begin by examining a conjecture (due to my pupil Zhang Wenyi) about the formalism for distinguishing crowds and ‘groups’ from corporat…
The Place of Kinship in the Social System
This papers examines the recent controversy as to whether there is any universally defined domain of kinship in sociocultural systems from the point of view of the philosophy of science, in particular, the classical positivism (e.g., of Radcliffe-Brown and of Murdock) that I show to have motivated the question. It also examines the American version of the controversy, as with Schneider, and shows that, again, the question arises because of essent…
The Dynamics of Kachin 'Chieftaincy' in Southwestern China and Northern Burma
Why Marriage
Marriage is not founded straightforwardly upon procreation. Rather, marriage is universally - not withstanding groups such as the Mosuo of China lacking institutionalized marriage - a contractua l relationship legitimating a woman's childbearing and giving her offspring social identity. While a child-bearing woman may simply take on the motherhood role, the same is not true for fatherhood. Rather, marriage defines a male conceptually as father fo…
Epistemology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Kinship (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues (1 works) · Alliance (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works)