Sociology Family

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2. Family
• Family–A social institution found in all societies that
unites people into cooperative groups to oversee the
bearing and raising of children
• Kinship–A social bond based on common ancestry,
marriage, or adoption
• Marriage–A legal relationship, usually involving
economic cooperation and childbearing
• Families of affinity–People who think of themselves as
a family and wish others to see them that way

3. Marriage Patterns
• Endogamy–Marriage between
people of the same social category
• Exogamy–Marriage between people
of different social categories
• Monogamy–Marriage that unites two
partners

4. Marriage Patterns
• Polygamy–Marriage that unites a
person with two or more spouses
– Polygyny–Marriage that unites one man
and two or more women
– Polyandry–Marriage that unites one
woman and two or more men

5. Residential Patterns
• Patrilocality
– With or near the husband’s family
• Matrilocality
– With or near the wife’s family
• Neolocality
– Setting up house apart from both families