Social System of Taq Taq Township: A Field Anthropology Research

Abstract

Societies include a group of systems or a main social structure that contains a group of systems,roles, and special places. This group of systems from a function perspective is connected due to the social relationships, which exist among each individual in those systems, where they accomplish and exchange their specific roles in their determined places. This is called social structure, which is one of the important parts of social anthropology. Generally, the social system is an indicator of the style or the way of society individuals through which they treat and affect each other as a guide to organize their daily transactions among them. All theseeffects and social relationships are the results of social system structure such as marriage, family, and kinship for providing the needs of human life and for society continuance. The purpose of this study is to know the social lifestyle of Taq Taq society and to reveal the changes that happened in the social structure of marriage, divorce, family, and kinship zone as well as to exposethe problems of the social system. This subject is qualitative anthropology research which has been done in the center of Taq Taq Township. The researcher got an advantage from the field of anthropology with the support of the theory of structural functionalism by using the methods and materials of collecting information like direct noticing and with others, interview, informant, document, data, formal registrations and remaining of the researcher in the social field of the research. For obtaining the result, the study is divided into five chapters includes society system, marriage, divorce, family, and kinship. In the end, the researcher has concluded that the phenomenon of external marriage is preferable, large families turned into small families, the kinship is through father’s race because society is a masculine one, the occurrence of divorce is increasing, the boys and girls have the freedom to choose their spouses, and sometimes polygamy in Taq Taq society is adopted due to some factors.