다산 정약용의 ‘스폰서’ 친족 -조선후기 친족은 부계화 되었는가?- = The ‘Sponsor’ Kins of Jeong Yak Yong -were the kins at late Chosun paternalized?-

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study examines the Da San Jeong Yak Yong's kinship relations of mother, wife, and in-laws. In Korean academia, many scholars have stressed that kinship in late Chosun period was more skewed toward a paternal side rather than a maternal side. After the war in 16th century, there was a need of reestablishing the Confucian social order. The Yangban elite tried to recover their social identity by reconstructing tradition and concentrating power through the paternal group with same surname. This concrete bondage among paternal kins formed political allies and served as Yangbans' self-protection tool. In short, the paternal kinship was dominantly emphasized in the late Chosun dynasty.
However, this study suggests that previously common notion of paternal kinship in late Chosun dynasty should be reconsidered. This study found that Jeong Yak Yong received abundant sponsoring throughout his career not only from paternal side but also from diverse kin relations: such as his maternal side and father-in-law's. In this paper, Jeong Yak Yong's maternal side kins were classified into three groups: Hangchon, Gyuldong, and Yeondong. Hangchon relatives supported Jeong economically and emotionally while Gyuldong went further to become academic sponsor. Even though Yeondong relatives were not well-off enough to sponsor economically, they were the largest emotional sponsor of Jeong. Such kinship interaction can also be found in the Koryo era where several layers of kinship existed as an individual's sponsor. The sponsoring from several and diverse kins maximized benefit at the individual and familial level. Even in Confucian society where paternal side was seemingly emphasized, the importance of interaction between diverse kins cannot be ignored.