SOCI 120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Exogamy, Endogamy, Consanguinity
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The family is changing faster then any other social institution due to many factors such as women"s desire to have a career & provide a better life for their children. Family is universal because it ful lls 6 function necessary to a functioning society: economic production, socialization of children, care of the sick and aged, recreation, sexual control, reproduction. Kinship: family ties, a social bond based on common ancestor, marriage, or adoption. All societies contain families but who is considered kin" varies (through history and cultures) Families join around marriage: a legal relationship, usually involving economic cooperation, sexual activity, and childbearing. Us census de nes family as people connected by birth, marriage, or adoption. Families of af nity: people who think of themselves as family and wish others to see them as such (homosexuals, people living together, ) Extended family: a family consisting of parents and children as well as other kin.
