ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Extended Family, Zoological Society Of London, Nuclear Family

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21 Oct 2011
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Same sex family or chosen family (some who are rejected, fictive kin) Married with or without children or lone parent. Ie. in brazil, uncles and aunts, children but not the dad or mom (they have different family) Murdoch"s functions of the family - associated with hraf file. [social structure, 1949] 1st or early attempt at cross cultural generalization / hraf. Diminishes sexual competition: protects child bearing females, primary context of enculturation ie. how they learn to talk, sexual division of labour characteristics of early human society. Family of orientation (you"re the kid) and family or procreation (where you"re the parent: found in virtually all societies, dominant in some of the most simple & most complex societies. Linked to the rise of organization (creates rural social form) and industrialization. The extended family siblings, children of siblings, grandparents, etc. 1 dominant domestic form of the pre-industrial world units of production unlike nuclear families basis for a more complex work behaviour.

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