Abstract:

The changes occurred in the family System, kinships and marriage in the contemporary Iraqi Community are considered one of the basic topics in the life of the society and the importance and welfare get increased recently toward the social researches all over the world for being considered as a development means. In addition, the welfare gets recently increased in the mid of 20th century and focusing on these social researches. The family is considered one of most important social institutions in many primitive and civilized human communities; hence the sociologists and anthropologists have hugely concerned over studying the family and analyzing it , as well as the role it plays in forming the individual and in the social system in general. . It is impossible to study any society without studying the family in that community and the role played by the family relations in the society. The kinship is represented as a social relationship depending on the ties emerged from the marriage, fatherhood and brotherhood that link the family members to each other; besides, this kinship is considered as a network of relations ensued from kinships. The kinship system with all its systems is considered one of the most important social consistencies of which the social construction of family and society is composed. The marriage system is considered one of the most important social systems in the community and the phenomenon of marriage depends on psychological biological instincts as well as it subjects to scales and civilized concepts in the human communities. The marriage system got changed in the community, after it was confined within kinship groups (internal marriage) , it takes a huge area outside the kinship community among the society .

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