SOC 120CDWI Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Immigration And Nationality Act Of 1965, Compadre, Individualism
2 Dec 2016
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The study of the family began in 1960. Lineages: form of kinship in which descent is traced: patrili(cid:374)eage: father"s li(cid:374)e, matrili(cid:374)eage: mother"s li(cid:374)e. Kinship groups: ensure order, defend against outsiders, provide labor, assist others in group, recruit new members. In most societies, it is smaller family units: mother and children always, husband/father, usually, other household members, sometimes. Western culture- smaller kinship groups: conjugal family: husband, wife and children, extended family: other relatives present in household, polygyny: one man, many wives, polyandry: one woman, more than one husband. Family and kinship systems were developed to provide fundamental needs: food production, defense. Brothers a(cid:374)d sisters li(cid:448)e i(cid:374) (cid:373)other"s household for life. Instead of taking wives, men visit women in other households: free to visit any na woman who will consent to sex. When children are born, they remain with mother and maternal aunts and uncles. After communist revolution in china, government began to promote monogamy among the na- they resisted.
