SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Exogamy, Sandwich Generation, Social Inequality
17 Dec 2017
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Family: a social institution that unites people in cooperative groups to care for one another, including any children. Kinship: a social bond based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption. Marriage: a legal relationship, usually involving economic cooperation, sexual activity, and childbearing. All societies have family, but who people consider kin is different. Extended family: family consisting of parents and children and other kin: recognized in pre-industrial societies, consanguine: shared blood. Nuclear family: a family composed of one or two parents and their children: industrialization, social mobility and geographic migration, conjugal: based on marriage. Endogamy: marriage between people of the same category. Patrilocality: married couple live with or near the husbands family: popular in pre-industrial society. Matrilocality: married couple live with or near the wife"s family. Neolocality: married couple live apart from both sets of parents: popular today. Descent: members of a society trace kinship over generations.
