4th quarter - 1st week

• Family


  The smallest unit in the field of sociology
• Family


  A group of two or more persons related by birth, marriage, or adoption who live together
• Functions of the family


  • Reproduction of the race and rearing the young
  • Cultural transmission or enculturation
  • Socialization of the child
  • Providing affection and a sense of security
  • Providing the environment for personality development and the growth of self-concept
• Family types by membership


  • Nuclear
  • Extended
  • Single-Parent
  • Stepfamily
  • Grandparent
• Family types by terms of marriage


  • Monogamy
  • Polygamy
  • Polyandry
  • Polygyny
  • Cenogamy
• Family types by line of descent


  • Patrilineal
  • Matrilineal
  • Bilineal
• Family types by place of residence


  • Patrilocal
  • Matrilocal
  • Neolocal
• Family types by authority


  • Patriarchal
  • Matriarchal
  • Egalitarian
• The family is the smallest unit in the field of sociology
• A family is a group of two or more persons related by birth, marriage, or adoption who live together: all such related persons are considered as members of one family
• a family consisting of two parents and their children.


  Nuclear Family
• consist of several generations of people and can include biological parents and their children as well as in-laws, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.


  Extended family
• someone who is unmarried, widowed, or divorced and not remarried


  Singple-Parent Family
• is a family where at least one parent has children who are not biologically related to their spouse. Either parent, or both, may have children from previous relationships or marriages.


  Stepfamily
• a family where the children are brought up by the grandparents.


  Grandparent family
• a relationship with only one partner at a time, rather than multiple partners.


  Monogamy
• the practice or custom of having more than one wife or husband at the same time.


  Polygamy
• marriage of a woman to two or more men at the same time


  Polyandry
• entailing the marriage of a man to several women


  Polygyny
• A group marriage in which any member may have sexual relations with any other members of the group.


  Cenogamy
• relating to or based on relationship to the father or descent through the male line.


  Patrilineal
• of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line


  Matrilineal
• Tracing an individual's descent through the father's male line and the mother's female line.


  Bilineal
• of or denoting a custom in marriage whereby the husband goes to live with the wife's community.

  Matrilocal
• relating to a pattern of marriage in which the couple settles in the husband's home or community.

  Patrilocal
• a type of family where a couple chooses to move away from their families and create their own home.

  Neolocal
• the male head of a family, tribe, community, church, order, etc.

  Patriarchal
• a family structure in which power and decision-making are shared equally among all family members, regardless of gender or age.

  Egalitarian
• the family structure in which the female is the head of the family

  Matriarchal