SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Universal Mind, Patrilocal Residence, Patrilineality
16 Dec 2015
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Family: a social institution that unites people in cooperative groups to care for one another, including any children. Kinship: a social bond based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption. Marriage: a legal relationship, usually involving economic cooperation, sexual activity, and childbearing. Durkheim would say that families are critical for society. Kin are people we can relate to. These are all social constructions because we decide. Extended family: a family consisting of parents and children as well as other kin: recognized in pre-industrial societies. Nuclear family: a family composed of one or two parents and their children o. Endogamy: marriage between people of the same category. Polygamy: three or more people: polygyny: two or more women, polyandry: two or more men. Patrilocality: married couple live with or near the husband"s family. Matrilocality: married couple live with or near the wife"s family. Neolocality: married couple live apart from both sets of parents.
