MKG 310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Silent Treatment, Impression Management, Single Parent
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Chapter 6- the american society: families and households. The household is the basic consumption unit for most consumer goods. The family household is the primary mechanism whereby cultural and subcultural values and behavior patterns are passed on to the next generation. A household is all the people who occupy a housing unit. A family household has at least two members related by birth, marriage, or adoption, one of whom is the householder. A nonfamily household is a householder living alone or exclusively with others to whom he or she is not related. The term traditional family is typically used to refer to a married opposite-sex couple and their own or adopted children living at home. A stepfamily is a married-couple family household with at least one child under the age of 18 who is a step-child through marriage. A multigenerational family is a family household containing at least two adult generations or a grandparent and at least one other generation.
