SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Incest Taboo, Patrilocal Residence, Real Marriage
16 Mar 2016
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Family: a social institution that unites people in cooperative groups to care for one another, including children. Kinship: a social bond based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption. Marriage: a legal relationship, usually involving economic cooperation, sexual activity, and childbearing. Extended family: a family consisting of parents and children as well as other kin (recognized in pre-industrial societies) Nuclear family: a family composed of one or two parents and their children (industrialization, social mobility, and geographic migration) Endogamy: marriage between people of the same category. Patrilocality: married couple live with or near the husband"s family. Matrilocality: married couple live with or near the wife"s family. Neolocality: married couple live apart from both sets of parents. Members of a society trace kinship over generations. Bilateral: tracing kinship through both men and women. The dominance of polygyny, patrilocality, and patrilineal descent reflects the universal presence of patriarchy.
