Groups {family} can have involuntary membership. Parents have legal power. Age differences are large. First socialization influence is parents, who care for children and establish parent and child roles. Socialization by family typically results in people {inner-directed person} who have strong consciences, have principles, control others through guilt, have moralistic politics, and have production economies. Socialization by family typically teaches children how to stay clean, control body functions, control temper and anger, explore and be curious safely, and stop noisy, destructive, and untidy behaviors.
aspects
Family and private life include marriage, driving, school, money, job, closeness to people, and death.
family relations
Families are main intimate and lasting personal relations. Identification and dominance are likely in families. Families teach interpersonal relations.
roles
Married people have three role types: companion, partner, and mother or father.
Family descent {descent, family} {bloodline} can be through males {patrilineal descent}, through females {matrilineal descent}, or through both {bilineal descent}.
Kinship relationships are basic to society and have relationship coefficients {inbreeding coefficient} {kinship coefficient} {coefficient of kinship} {relationship coefficient} {coefficient of relationship}.
Families can live {locality, family} with husband parents {patrilocal}, with wife parents {matrilocal}, or separately {neolocal}.
Ceremonies {passage rite} {rite of passage}| can be for entering adolescence and puberty.
Families {nuclear family}| {conjugal family} can have husband, wife, and dependent children.
Families {extended family} {consanguinal family} can be nuclear family and other relatives.
Families {bureaucratic family} can emphasize accommodation, emotional expression, and other-directedness. They use reasoning, encouragement, and permissiveness.
Families {entrepreneurial family} can emphasize self-reliance, competition, rational thought, rational action, self-control, and activeness. They use punishments, rewards, and commands.
Mothers can be dominant {matriarchal family}.
Fathers can be dominant in family {patriarchal family}.
Families can have one man and one woman {monogamy}|.
Families can have more than one man {polyandry}.
Families can have more than one woman {polygyny}|.
Families can have more than one wife or husband {polygamy}|.
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