Unit Two Family - Unit Two Family The Family Basic Concepts Family is a social institution that unites people in cooperative groups to oversee the

Unit Two: Family The Family: Basic Concepts: Family is a social institution that unites people in cooperative groups to oversee the bearing and raising of children; socialization and gender socialization begin here • Kinship – a social bond based on blood, marriage or adoption • Family Unit – two or more people who are related by blood, adoption, marriage or some other form of extended commitment and who reside together • Nuclear Family – 31.9% in Canada: one to two parents and their unmarried children ( Standard North American Family) • Extended Family – nuclear family plus other kin; immigrant and first nation families • Endogamy – marriage between people of the dame social category • Exogamy – marriage between people of different social categories • Consanguine Marriage – extreme form in which blood relatives marry each other • Marriage – approved marital arrangements in a society; each society established norms based on endogamy and exogamy to establish who is best to marry whom • Propinquity – spatial proximity • Homogamy – people marry those like themselves regarding religion, ethnicity, education (preference, not a rule) • Heterogamy – marriage between people who are dissimilar in some important regard such as religion, ethnicity, social class, personality or age. (preference) – personal choice is guided