SOC100H5 Lecture : Chapter 18 – Family - pp.431-454.doc

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

Document Summary

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. 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. Endogamy: marriage between people of the same category. Patrilocality a residential pattern where a married couple lives near the husbands family. Matrilocality a residential pattern in which a married couple lives next to the wife"s family. Neolocality a residential pattern in which a married couple lives apart from both sets of parents. Patrilineal descent a system of tracking kinship through men. Matrilineal descent a system tracking kinship through women. Bilateral descent a system tracking kinship through both men and women.