SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Theism, Thomas Theorem, Protestant Work Ethic
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Family: two or more people, related either by birth or through social commitment, who share resources, care for dependents, and often maintain close emotional relationships. With its enduring patterns of relationships and behaviors, the family is a key social institution. Can be blood, adoption, marriage, civil union, steadfast enduring relationship. Sociologists working in the functionalist tradition have highlighted several positive social functions of families: social stability: families create kinship ties. Solid network: material aid: members help one another by pooling resources. Work together: descent and inheritance: descent- the way people trace kinship over multiple generations. Inheritance- rules regarding the reallocation of property within a family. Modern, descent is commonly bilateral aka traced through both mother and father. In traditional societies, descent was unileal, traced either through the father or mother: care and socialization of dependents: children and elderly. Socialize them in values, beliefs and practical skills: sexual regulation: cultural norms typically indicate which relations are socially acceptable.
