Family and Religion

Family: Basic Concepts

Family a social instutution found iun all societies that unites people in cooperative

kinship a social boud based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption

Marriage a legal relationship, usually involving economic cooperation , sexual activity, and childbearing

Patterns of Descent

Descent, the system by which members of a society trace kinship over generations

Incest taboo, a norm forbidding sexual relations or marriage between certain relatives

Reproduction

Social placement

Material and emotional security

inequality and Family: Ssocial-Conflict and Feminist Analysis

Constructing Family Life: Micro-Level Analysis

Symblolic-interaction Approach

Social- Exchange Approach

Child Rearing

Social Class

Ethnicity and Race

Ethnically and Racially Mixed Mrriages

Divorce and Children

Remarriage and Blended Families

Violence against Children

Cohabitation

Singlehood

New Reproductive Technologies and Family

Families: Looking Ahead

Functions of Religion: Structural- Functional Analysis

Social Cohesion

Social Control

Providing meaning and Purpose

Family: Global Variations

Extended family, a family composed of parents and children as well as other kin.

nuclear family

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

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Polygamy, marriage that unites a person with two or more spouses

Patterns of Authority

Theoretical Analysis of Families

Functions of Family: Structural- Functional Analysis

Setting In: Ideal and Real Marriage

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Sexuality

Infidelity

The Family in Later Life

U.S. Families: Class, Race, and Gender

American Indian Families

Gender

Divorce

Family Violence

Violence against Women

Alternative Family
Forms

One- Parent Families

Gay and Lesbian Couples

Religion: Basic Concepts

Profane

Sacred

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Religion

Faith

Religion and Social Change

Max Weber: Protestantism and Capitalism