SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Universal Mind, Family Basic, Incest

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Family: a social institution that unities people in cooperative groups to care for one another. 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. Patrilocality: married couple live with or near husbands family. Matrilocality: married couple live with or near wife family. Neolocality: married couple live apart from both sets of parents. Bilateral: tracing kinship through both women and men. Dominance of all the marriage patterns descent re ects the universal presence of patriarchy. Incest taboo: forbids sexual relations or marriage between certain relatives. There"s a lot of diversity between families. Negative aspects like patriarchy and family violence. Patriarchy: to know their heirs, men must control the sexuality of women, own them as their property.