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