SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Friedrich Engels, Class Conflict, Social Inequality
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Nature of family has changed in high, middle, and low income nations, term means different things to different people issue of what constitutes a family has been widely debated. Kinship: social network of people based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption. Family of orientation: the family into which a person is born and in which early socialization usually takes place. Family of procreation: the family that a person forms by having adopting children. Extended: family unit composed of relatives in addition to the parents and children who live in the same household. Nuclear: composed of one or two parents and their dependent children, all of whom live apart from other relatives. Decline in marriages, an increase in common law unions, and increase in single parent families. Marriage: a legally recognized and/or socially approved arrangement between two or more individuals that carries vertain rights and obligations and usually involves sexual activity. Monogamy: marriage to one person at a time.