SOC 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Alimony, Christian Symbolism, Jessie Bernard

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1200
• Professor: Karen M.Kampen

Document Summary

Family: a social institution found in all societies that unites people in co-operative groups to care for one another, including any children. Kinship: a social bond based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption all societies contain families, but who people call their kinship varies with culture and history. Marriage: legal relationship, usually involving economic co-operation sexual activity and childbearing. Because some business and governments still define marriage as the conventional man and wife, legal thing, gay marriage is not covered for family health care: gradually coming to more. 0. 5% of all couples in canada identified themselves as same sex common law couples. Extended families: a family composed of parents and children as well as other kinships common in pre-industrial societies, sometimes called the consanguine family because its everyone with shared blood. Nuclear family: a family composed of one or two parents and their children, also called the conjugal family, meaning its based on marriage this is more in industrial societies.