Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Patrilocal Residence, Patrilineality, Symbolic Interactionism
22 Apr 2017
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Family is a social institution that unites people in cooperative groups to oversee the bearing and rising of children. Kinship: a social bond based on blood, marriage or adoption. Nuclear family: one or two parents and their unmarried children: snaf: standard north american family but only 31. 9% of consensus families account for this. Endogamy: marriage between people of the same social category (ethnicity, religion, etc. ). An extreme of this would be consanguine marriage, in which cousins marry cousins (1 billion world wide) Propinquity: spatial proximity you finding a partner that lives in your area. 60% of us will marry someone within 20 blocks of our house. Heterogamy: marriage between people who are dissimilar in some important regard such as religion, ethnicity, social class, personality, or age: homogamy and heterogamy are about choice they"re more personal. All forms of marriage determine a system of descent so kinship can be determined and inheritance rates established.
