SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Incest Taboo, Real Marriage, Universal Mind

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Family: a social institution that unites people in cooperative groups to care for one another, including any children. Kinship: a social bon based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption. Marriage: a legal relationship, usually involving economic cooperation, sexual activity, and childbearing. Extended family: a family consisting of parents and children as well as other kin: recognized in pre-industrial societies. Nuclear family: a family composed of one or two parents and their children: industrialization, social mobility and geographic migration. Endogamy: marriage between people of the same category. Polygamy: three or more people: polygyny: two or more women, polyandry: two or more men. Patrilocality: married couple live with or near the husband"s family. Matrilocality: married couple live with or near the wife"s family. Neolocality: married couple live apart from both sets of parents. Members of a society trace kinship over generations: patrilineal: tracing kinship through men, matrilineal: tracing kinship through women, bilateral: tracing kinship through both mean and women.