SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Stephanie Coontz, United States Census Bureau, Patrilineality
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A family in which relatives- such as grandparents, aunts, or uncles-live in the same household as their children. Each family member serves as a material resource, a producer. Large extended family provides emotional and mental support in crises. As industrial societies rose, agricultural societies decreased- large families became too expensive: nuclear family. A married couple and their unmarried children living together. With the industrial age, family size decreased. 565 societies sampled in more than 80% some form of polygamy was preferred. Decline in preference for polygamy over the 20th century. Polygyny: a form of polygamy in which a man may have more than one wife at the same time. Polyandry: a form of polygamy in which a woman may have more than one husband at the same time. Conflict perspecitive: a sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of tensions between groups over power or the allocation of resources including:
