Family and Kinship (Sociology)
Presented by,
Shailendra Kumar Nitish Singh Amit Dogra
FAMILY AND KINSHIP
What family means… The family forms the basic unit of social organization and it is difficult to imagine how human society could function without it. The family has been seen as a universal social institution an inevitable part of human society.
FAMILY
Defining “FAMILY”
Various sociologists “family” in various ways: G.P Murdock defines the family as a social group characterized by common residence, economic cooperation and reproduction. It includes adults of both sexes at least two of whom maintain a socially approved sexual relationship and one or more children own or adopted of the sexually co-habiting adults. According to Burgess and Lock, the family is a group of persons united by ties of marriage, blood or adoption constituting a single household interacting with each other in their respective social role of husband and wife, mother and father, brother and sister creating a common culture.
Defining “FAMILY” (contd.)
Reiss defines the family as a small kinship-structured group with the key function of providing nurturance and socialization of the newborn. He acknowledges that this group is commonly the parents in a conjugal relationship. Malinowski opined that the family is the institution within which the cultural traditions of a society is handed over to a newer generation. This indispensable function could not be filled unless the relations to parents and children were relations reciprocally of authority and respect.
Universality Emotional Basis
Responsibility of the members
Nuclear position in the social structure
Characteristics Of Family
Formative Influence
Limited Size
Social Regulation
TYPES OF FAMILY
Bases of classification:
On the basis of marriage
Polygamous or polygynous family
Polyandrous family
Monogamous family
On the basis of the nature of residence
Family of matrilocal residence
Family of
Shailendra Kumar Nitish Singh Amit Dogra
FAMILY AND KINSHIP
What family means… The family forms the basic unit of social organization and it is difficult to imagine how human society could function without it. The family has been seen as a universal social institution an inevitable part of human society.
FAMILY
Defining “FAMILY”
Various sociologists “family” in various ways: G.P Murdock defines the family as a social group characterized by common residence, economic cooperation and reproduction. It includes adults of both sexes at least two of whom maintain a socially approved sexual relationship and one or more children own or adopted of the sexually co-habiting adults. According to Burgess and Lock, the family is a group of persons united by ties of marriage, blood or adoption constituting a single household interacting with each other in their respective social role of husband and wife, mother and father, brother and sister creating a common culture.
Defining “FAMILY” (contd.)
Reiss defines the family as a small kinship-structured group with the key function of providing nurturance and socialization of the newborn. He acknowledges that this group is commonly the parents in a conjugal relationship. Malinowski opined that the family is the institution within which the cultural traditions of a society is handed over to a newer generation. This indispensable function could not be filled unless the relations to parents and children were relations reciprocally of authority and respect.
Universality Emotional Basis
Responsibility of the members
Nuclear position in the social structure
Characteristics Of Family
Formative Influence
Limited Size
Social Regulation
TYPES OF FAMILY
Bases of classification:
On the basis of marriage
Polygamous or polygynous family
Polyandrous family
Monogamous family
On the basis of the nature of residence
Family of matrilocal residence
Family of