Nuclear Family Article: Click icon to add picture • 1. What changes surprised you the most? • 2. What does the article say about the status of the traditional “nuclear family?” • 3. Do you think the disappearance of the nuclear family is a societal problem?
Nuclear Family Article:
Feb 24, 2016
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Nuclear Family Article:Click icon to add picture
• 1. What changes surprised you the most?
• 2. What does the article say about the status of the traditional “nuclear family?”
• 3. Do you think the disappearance of the nuclear family is a societal problem?
Chapter 18-The Family
The Family as a Social Institution
WHAT is a family?
HOW are families in the United States changing?
WHY is there a debate over the future of the family?
FamilySocial institution found in all
societies that unites people in cooperative groups to care for one another, including any children
Types of Families Family of Orientation
Family of Procreation
Extended Family
Nuclear Family
Types of Families (cont.)Family of Orientation
The nuclear family we are born into (parents, siblings)
Family of Procreation The family we create upon marriage,
having kids, etc.
Types of Families (cont.)Extended Family
Family consisting of parents and children as well as other kin
Nuclear Family Family composed of one or two
parents and their children
Marriage Patterns Around the WorldEndogamy- marriages
between people of same social category
Exogamy- marriages between people of different social categories
Marriage Patterns Around the WorldMonogamy- marriage that
unites two partnersPolygamy- marriage that
unites a person with two or more spousesPolygyny- many wivesPolyandry- many husbands
Patriarchy in Marriage Patterns In history, many traditions have lead to
Patrilocality (married couple lives near husband’s family)
Patrilineal descent- tracing kinship through men and the father’s family
Today, it is still common for men to be heads of households, for women to take the man’s last name and for children to have the last name of their father
The Functions of the Family Socialization
Regulation of Sexual Activity
Social Placement
Material and Emotional Security
Conflict Analysis of FamilyWays that the Family creates social inequality:Property and InheritancePatriarchyRace and Ethnicity
Symbolic Interaction AnalysisFamilies allow people to
create emotional bonds as families experience intimacy in everyday situations.
Baby Jessica and our Class Definition of the Family
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