SOC 1010 Chapter Notes -Sperm Donation, Egg Donation, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
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Marriage: a group"s approved mating arrangements, usually marked by a ritual of some. Family: two or more people who consider themselves related by blood, marriage, or sort adoption. How family and marriage differ in traditional vs. postindustrial societies. Traditional: parents,usually the father, select the spouse. Monogamy: having relations with only one person. Polygamy: the practice of having more than one partner at the same time. Nuclear families: nuclear in which marriage brings fewer obligations toward the. Extended families: extended in which marriage embeds spouses in a large kinship spouse"s relatives network of explicit obligations. Functional perspective: functions of economic production, socialization of children, care of sick and aged, recreation, sexual control, reproduction. Inequality , struggles between husbands and wives, Henslin indicates the wives have more control over family money. Husbands have increased the time they spend on houseworkand childcare and dropped paid hours of work a bit. Division of labor for men and women in families:
