SOC 1100 Chapter 18: Family
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Family a social insituion that unites people in cooperaive groups to care for one another, including any children. Kinship a social bond based on common ancestry, marriage or adopion. Marriage a legal relaionship, usually involving economic cooperaion, sexual acivity and childbearing. Global variaions: extended family a family consising of parents and children as well as other kin, nuclear family a family composed of one or two parents and their children (also called conjugal meaning based on marriage) Endogamy marriage between people of the same social category. Exogamy marriage between people of diferent social categories. Monogamy marriage that unites two partners. Polygamy (two forms) marriage that unites a person with two or more spouses: polygyny marriage that unites one man and two or more women, polyandry marriage that unites one woman and two or more men. Patrilocality a residenial patern in which a married couple lives with or near the husband"s family.
