SYG 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Endogamy, Exogamy, Family Therapy
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Family: a social institution that binds people. Kinship: family comprised of members linked together ny blood, marriage, or adoption. Membership: ideal definitions, such as defining marriage as a voluntary union of a man and a woman in a lifelong covenant welcoming of children. Legal recognition: people whose living and procreation choices are recognized under the law as constituting a family. Family should be defied in terms of social functions: regulating sexual behavior, replacing the members of society who die, socializing the young, providing care and emotional support. (cid:862)who (cid:271)e(cid:374)efits f(cid:396)o(cid:373) the (cid:272)u(cid:396)(cid:396)e(cid:374)t defi(cid:374)itio(cid:374)s of fa(cid:373)il(cid:455) a(cid:374)d at (cid:449)hose e(cid:454)pe(cid:374)se? (cid:863) The institution of family can: perpetuate inequalities by passing on social advantages and disadvantages to its members, be structured to value productive work and devalue reproductive work, foster social divisions and boundaries. Exogamy: norms requiring or encouraging people to choose a partner from a social category other than their own.
