SOCL 1101 Lecture Notes - Black Kids, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Nuclear Family
17 Sep 2013
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Paradox: we think of the family as a haven in a harsh world, but inequality begins at home. One mechanism by which a family can be built upon: polygamy = practice whereby an individual has more than one spouse/partner at a time, endogamy = marriage within one"s social group (racial/ethnic, class, religious, etc. ) Someone like yourself << most likely to marry someone in your racial group. There are social pressure for doing so, and also laws (interracial marriage used to be prohibited: exogamy = marriage outside of one"s social group, like across class, race, religious lines. Nuclear family is when two adults live together (typically a husband and wife) live together with their children in one household -- although it is not reflective of the typical family in the us, or really anywhere. Extended family are people beyond the nuclear unit (like grandparents, aunts, cousins, etc. ) typically in the same household, often beyond two generations.
