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1: sociology
defining families
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| genealogy | the study of ancestry and family history |
| families | groups of related people, bound by connections that are biological, legal, or emotional |
| personal family | the people to whom we feel related and who we expect to define us as members of their family as well |
| legal family | a group of individuals related by birth, marriage, or adoption |
| institutional arena | a social space in which relations between people in common position are governed by accepted rules of interaction |
| family arena | the institutional arena where people practice intimacy, childbearing and socialization, and caring work |
| census | a periodic count of people in a population and their characteristic, usually performed as an official government function |
| household | a group of people that lives and eats separately from other groups |
| state | the institutional arena where, through political means, behavior is legally regulated, violence is controlled, and resources are redistributed |
| market | the institutional arena where labor for pay, economic exchange, and wealth accumulation take place |