SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Real Marriage, Incest Taboo, Patrilocal Residence

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Family: a social insituion that unites people in cooperaive groups to care for one another, including any children o. You don"t have to have kids to have a family. Kinship: a social bond based on common ancestry, marriage, or adopion: kin ie doesn"t have to be blood related, it has to have social bond. Marriage: a legal relaionship, usually involving economic cooperaion, sexual acivity, and childbearing o. Extended family: a family consising of parents and children as well as other kin: recognized in pre-industrial socieies. Nuclear family: a family composed of one or two parents and their children o. Endogamy: marriage between people of the same category. Polygamy: three or more people: polygyny: two or more women, polyandry: two or more men. 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.