SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Sandwich Generation, Endogamy, Test Tube
Document Summary
A social institution that unites people in cooperative groups to care for another. A social bond based on common ancestry, marriage or adoption. Legal relationship, usually involve economic cooperations, sexual activity and childbearing. Recognized in pre-industrial societies family consisting of parents, kin, children. A family composed of one or two parents and their children. Endogamy: marriage between people of the same category. Matrilocality: married couple live near the wife"s family. Neolocality: married couple live apart from both sets of parents. Member of a society trace kinship over generation. Bilateral: tracing kinship through both men and women. Dominance of polygyny, patrilocality and patrilineal descents reflects the universal presence of patriarchy. How other institution are taking over its roles. Negative aspects like patriarchy (eldest male is head) and family violence. This approach points out how the family perpetuates social inequality. Property and inheritance: high class men"s need to identify their heirs property)
