SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes -Patrilineality, Bilateral Descent, Nuclear Family
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Families we choose: social arrangements that include intimate relationships between couples and close familiar relationships with other couples, as well as with other adults and children. Kinship: social network of people based on common ancestry, marriage or adoption; people cooperate to acquire basic necessities of life and serve as a means which property is transferred, goods are produced and distributed and power is allocated. Family of orientation: the family into which a person is born and in which early socialization takes place. Family of procreation: the family that a person forms by having or adopting children. Extended family: family unit composed of relatives in addition to parents and children. Nuclear family: family made up of one or two parents and their dependent children. Homogamy: marrying those who have similar characteristics such as race, religion, age, education, class: most people in canada tend to marry partners who are similar to themselves. Monogamy: marriage to one person at a time.
