SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Nuclear Family, Endogamy, Exogamy
Document Summary
The family is a social institution present in every society: def: cooperative group of adults organized to take charge of the care of children. Families are part of kinship systems (family trees) and other social networks: whether we realize it or not, there are also legal and cultural factors that affect our choice. Families form for a variety of reasons: expression of love, economic or political purposes, sex. To raise children: social rules structure sex and marriage, marriage forms: monogamy, polygamy, and group marriage. Family forms and changes: a nuclear family or traditional family, a family consisting of a father and mother and their biological children, extended family, kin. Familial networks that extend beyond the nuclear family and may extend beyond the home. Individuals who you are related to by blood, common ancestry, and co-residence (i. e. marriage) There is no real typical family in western society today. Traditional, nuclear family is a historical anomaly: still holds cultural power.
