Sociology - Family

® can be defined as a commitment and an ongoing exchange. A commitment involves a more or less explicit contract that spells out the rights and obligations between partners and can be define at either the personal or social level

Emotional dimension of marriage-include love, sexual gratification, companionship and empathy

The task oriented dimension-including earning a living, spending money and maintain a household

® can be defined as two or more people who are related by blood, adoption or some other form of extended commitment and reside together

® The person must be related in some way and they must customarily maintain a common residence

Marriage involving only two partners

® marriage involving more than two partners

One man married to two or more women; husband-sharing

: one woman married to two or more men; wife-sharing

Marriage involving multiple partners, not specified above

® Although there are different orientations toward premarital and extramarital sex, reproduction and sex are generally controlled for the benefit of families

A “golden age of the family”. Not only the peak of the baby boom, but it was also a period of the marriage “rush” as marriage occurred at young ages and almost everyone married

® Changes in any one part of society affect other parts, and that each part of society serves some function for the whole

® standards by which people judge the acceptability of premarital sex

® forbids premarital sex