Sociology 2140 Study Guide - Final Guide: Class Discrimination, Water Scarcity, Neoliberalism
26 Apr 2017
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Family an institution found in all societies that unites people in cooperative groups to care for one another, including children. Kinship a social network of people based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption. Important to pre-industrial societies: an efficient means of producing and distributing goods, transfers power/property from one generation to the next. Extended family a family unit composed of relatives in addition to parents and children, all of whom live in the same household. Include grandparents, aunts, uncles, children, parents etc: common in low income countries more people to share the work/create resources. With indust(cid:396)ializatio(cid:374) : other social institutions begin to full-fill the kinship-system function, ex: production of goods shifts to the economic sector. Nuclear family a family unit composed of one or two parents and his/her/their dependent children who live apart from other relatives: fu(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s p(cid:396)i(cid:373)a(cid:396)il(cid:455) to , regulate sexual activity, socialize children, provide family members with affection and companionship.
