SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Incest Taboo, Real Marriage, Social Inequality
20 Apr 2016
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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. Extended family: a family consisting of parents & children as well as other kin. Nuclear fam: fam composed of 1 or 2 parents & their children. Endogamy: marriage between ppl of the same category. Incest taboo: forbids sexual relations of marriage between certain relatives. How other institutions taking over its roles. Negative aspects like patriarchy and family violence. Inequality and the family: social conflict and feminist analysis. This approach points out how the family perpetuates social inequality. Property and inheritance; high class mens need to identify their heirs. Patriarchy; to known their heirs, men must control the sexuality of men; own them as property. Race and ethnic inequality; marriage within group supports racial and ethnic hierarchies.
