SOCL 2001 Chapter : Families
Document Summary
Family: people live together with commitment 2. Share emotional ties (consisting 2 or more people, economic unit, vary across time and cultural) Social placement (based on social class, live chances impacted by this) Extended- several generations of blood relatives sharing one household (to share resources) Nuclear- one or two parents and their children (biological or adopted) (most people in u. s see nuclear as preferred motto but only one third fit this motto) Among those who have never been married (both men and women) 27 percent not sure (found that if you have been married before only 29% said they would want to get married again, divorced people) (data- pew research survey 2010 study) adults age 30- 50. Serial (practice of getting married, divorce and then married again, or just relationship sexual then ending it) polygamy- unites a person with two or more spouses polygyny- one man with two or more women (that one show)
