Social Institutions

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Social InstitutionsThe Family
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So, what exactly is a family?

• The Debate over Family Definitions
• a group of people related by either blood,
  marriage, or adoption
• a social institution that unites individuals into
  cooperative groups that care for one another,
  including any children
• people with or without legal or blood ties who
  feel they belong together
• What to take away.
• - definition varies from society to society
• - definition can change over time

Family has the greatest impact on human
behavior
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Basic Types of Families

• Nuclear Family family structure comprised of
  parent(s) and children

Extended Family family structure comprised of
two or more generations of adults who live in the
same household share economic resources
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Additions to Family Types

• Blended Family family structure formed when at
  least partner in a marriage has been married
  before and has children from the previous
  marriage

Single Parent Family family structure in which
one parent is head of household raising children
without other parent
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Additions to Family Types

• Childless Family family structure in which the
  married couple choose to or cannot have children

Same Sex Family family structure composed of a
homosexual couple living together as a family
with or without children
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Which Sitcom Represents Which?
King of Queens
Family Matters
The Simpsons
The Brady Bunch
Full House
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Quiz Part 1
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• Family of Orientation
• Family in which a person is born into
• Where early socialization takes place
• Gives name identity
• Give heritage
• Gives ascribed status
• Grants orientation to the world

• Family of Procreation
• Family formed through marriage
• Family formed by having or adopting children
• Goal ? produce, enculturate,
• socialize children
• Takes over as new family
• of orientation

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Family Structure
Head of Family Patrilineal Matrilineal Bilateral
By whom do we trace Descent Inheritance Male Line Female Line Both Equally
Authority In Family Patriarchy Matriarchy Equalitarian
To whom Power and Authority within the family belong Oldest Male Oldest Female Shared By Both
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Marriage

• Two Basic Forms of Marriage
• Monogamy marriage between one man one women
• Polygamy marriage of man/women to more than one
  person

• Two Types of Marriage
• Exogamy marriage to person outside kind or group
• Result Heterogamy (different)
• Ex outside blood line
• Endogamy marriage to person inside kind or group
• Result Homogamy (similar)
• Ex within race/age/caste

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• Reasons for Marriage
• Love
• Arrangement
• Economic Benefit
• Social Class
• Companionship

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• Reasons for Divorce
• Personal Factors
• - age - years -quality
• Societal Factors
• - economic changes
• - generational change
• - independence
• - values/attitudes of society

10 of American adults over age 15 are divorced!
Divorce rate is ten times what it was a century
ago!
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Recent Family Trends

• Ways in which American families are changing
• Cohabitation people living together without
  marrying
• 500,000 in 1970 to 5.6 million in 2005 (U.S.
  Census Bureau, 2006)
• 9 of all couples (U.S. Census Bureau, 2005)
• Postponing Marriage people are delaying marriage
• 1950 average median age for marriage was 20.3
  (women) 22.8 (men)
• 2003 average median age jumped to 25.3 (women)
  27.1 (men) (U.S. Census Bureau, 2004)

• Single Parents children being raised by just one
  parent
• 2005 1 in 3 families with children under 18 had
  just one parent in the household 9 (U.S. Census
  Bureau, 2006)
• Since 1970 the number has more than doubled
• Same-Sex Families movement to win the right to
  marry
• 25 of same-sex couples are raising children
  (U.S. Census Bureau, 2002)
• Mothers Joining the Workforce
• 18 of young children are spending time in
  child-care programs (Urban Institute, 2004)