Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Kingsley Davis, Social Exchange Theory, Exogamy
30 Jan 2013
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Social institution that unites people in cooperative groups to oversee the bearing and raising of children. Kinship: a social bond based on blood, marriage or adoption. Family unit: two or more people who are related by blood, adoption, marriage or some other form of extended commitment and who reside together (cohabitation) Nuclear family (snaf): 1 or 2 parents and their unmarried children. With increased industrialization and mobility, there is an increase in snaf. Extended family: nuclear family plus other kin (e. g. immigrant family, aboriginals, first nations) Endogamy: marriage between people of same social category (marrying within) Exogamy: marriage between people of different social category (marring out) Propinquity: spatial proximity (60% will marry someone within 20 blocks of you) Homogomy: people marry those like themselves regarding religion, ethnicity, education, etc. (think characteristics) But each society governs norms/values, so our marriage choices are governed by social choices. Since 80"s, lone-parent families are the fastest growing (cohabitation is 2nd)
