SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Nuclear Family, Incest Taboo, Social Inequality

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5
• Professor: Suzanne Casimiro

Document Summary

The family: basic concepts family: a social institution that unites people in cooperative groups to care for one another including any children kinship: a social bond based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption. Marriage: a legal relationship, usually involving economic cooperation, sexual activity, and childbearing. Global variations extended family: a family consisting of parents and children as well as other kin. Nuclear family: a family composed of one or two parents and their children. Marriage patterns endogamy: marriage between people of the same category exogamy: marriage from different categories. Polygamy: three or more people: polygyny: two or more women, polyandry: two or more men. Functions of the family: structural-functional analysis family performs many vital tasks for society o o socialization regulation of sexual activity incest taboo: forbids sexual relations or marriage between certain relatives social placement o: material and emotional security. Symbolic-interactional: intimacy: etymology means o: opportunities for sharing activities helps build emotional bonds.