SOC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Family Affairs, Nuclear Family, Exogamy

• School: St. John's University
• Department: SOC - SOCIOLOGY
• Course: SOC 1001
• Professor: Robert Mangione

Document Summary

Functions of a family: regulating sexual behavior, patterning reproduction, organizing reproduction and consumption, socializing children, providing care and protection, providing social status. Extended families: other relations and generations in addition to the nuclear family, so that along w/ married parents and their offspring, there may be the parents" parents, siblings of the parents, the siblings" spouses and children, and in-laws. Ways generations are traces: patrilineal systems, generations are tied together through the males of a family; all members trace their kinship through the father"s line. Describe situations in which most family affairs are dominated by men. Most family affairs are dominated by women, is relatively uncommon but does exist: matrilineal systems, generations are tied through the females of the family, bilateral systems, descent passes through both females and males of a family. Marriage: an institution found in all societies, is the socially recognized, legitimized and supported union of individuals of opposite sexes.