Sociology 1020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Patrilineality, Bilateral Descent, Exogamy
21 Aug 2019
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Family is a social institution found in all societies that unites people in co-operative groups to care for one another, including children: family ties are called kinship, a social bond based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption. Extended family consists of parents and children as well as other kin (aka consanguine family, containing all members sharing blood) Increasing social mobility and geographic migration gave rise to the nuclear family, which consists of one or two parents and children (aka conjugal family, based on marriage) Endogamy is marriage between people of the same social category. Exogamy is marriage between people of different social categories. Polygamy is marriage that unites a person with two or more spouses. In high-income nations, law permit only monogamy; marriage that units two partners: polygyny is marriage that unites one man with two or more women, polyandry is marriage that unites one women with two or more men.
