Family and Religion
Max Weber: Protestantism and Capitalism
Religion and Social Change
Religion: Basic Concepts
Profane
Faith
Religion
Sacred
Gay and Lesbian Couples
One- Parent Families
Alternative Family
Forms
Violence against Women
Family Violence
Divorce
Gender
American Indian Families
U.S. Families: Class, Race, and Gender
The Family in Later Life
Sexuality
Infidelity
Setting In: Ideal and Real Marriage
Functions of Family: Structural- Functional Analysis
Theoretical Analysis of Families
Patterns of Authority
Marriage Patterns
endogamy, marriage between people of the same social category
exogamy, marriage between people of different social categories
Polygamy, marriage that unites a person with two or more spouses
monogamy,marriage that unites two partners
Subtopic
Family: Global Variations
Extended family, a family composed of parents and children as well as other kin.
nuclear family
Functions of Religion: Structural- Functional Analysis
Social Cohesion
Social Control
Providing meaning and Purpose
Families: Looking Ahead
New Reproductive Technologies and Family
Singlehood
Cohabitation
Violence against Children
Remarriage and Blended Families
Divorce and Children
Ethnically and Racially Mixed Mrriages
Ethnicity and Race
Social Class
Child Rearing
Constructing Family Life: Micro-Level Analysis
Symblolic-interaction Approach
Social- Exchange Approach
inequality and Family: Ssocial-Conflict and Feminist Analysis
Patterns of Descent
Descent, the system by which members of a society trace kinship over generations
Reproduction
Social placement
Material and emotional security
Incest taboo, a norm forbidding sexual relations or marriage between certain relatives
kinship a social boud based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption
Marriage a legal relationship, usually involving economic cooperation , sexual activity, and childbearing
Family a social instutution found iun all societies that unites people in cooperative
Family: Basic Concepts
