6-Sociology-Family

family in sociology

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.

descent in family

Family descent {descent, family} {bloodline} can be through males {patrilineal descent}, through females {matrilineal descent}, or through both {bilineal descent}.

kinship coefficient

Kinship relationships are basic to society and have relationship coefficients {inbreeding coefficient} {kinship coefficient} {coefficient of kinship} {relationship coefficient} {coefficient of relationship}.

locality in family

Families can live {locality, family} with husband parents {patrilocal}, with wife parents {matrilocal}, or separately {neolocal}.

rite of passage

Ceremonies {passage rite} {rite of passage}| can be for entering adolescence and puberty.

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nuclear family

Families {nuclear family}| {conjugal family} can have husband, wife, and dependent children.

extended family

Families {extended family} {consanguinal family} can be nuclear family and other relatives.

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bureaucratic family

Families {bureaucratic family} can emphasize accommodation, emotional expression, and other-directedness. They use reasoning, encouragement, and permissiveness.

entrepreneurial family

Families {entrepreneurial family} can emphasize self-reliance, competition, rational thought, rational action, self-control, and activeness. They use punishments, rewards, and commands.

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matriarchal family

Mothers can be dominant {matriarchal family}.

patriarchal family

Fathers can be dominant in family {patriarchal family}.

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monogamy

Families can have one man and one woman {monogamy}|.

polyandry

Families can have more than one man {polyandry}.

polygyny

Families can have more than one woman {polygyny}|.

polygamy

Families can have more than one wife or husband {polygamy}|.

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