SOAN 3100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Preferred Number, Parenting, Patrilineality

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 3100
• Professor: Sharada Srnivasan

Document Summary

It is generally inter-generational obligations that shape parental expectations, influence choices and child entitlements along with overall behavior patterns. In general, the family is defined as a kin-specified group and it is through their commitment of recruitment that we see the relations within the household in order to create greater solidarity within every area of the home. In asia, individuals lives and roles are greatly embedded within the affairs of the family and cannot be referenced outside of the family. However, kinship units vary across structure, relationship, class, religion and culture. Thus, we can see that a persons short term and long-term interests are demonstrated within their motives behind the family choices they make. Families and their members reveal that they had very clear ideas about their preferred number of offspring and their gender. Even with birth control they have concluded that birth rates still vary.