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Unit 1: Family & Households Eenheid 1: Gesin & Huishouding. Anthropology (ANT) 214. Two fundamentally different types of family 1.Nuclear family - based on marital ties (conjugal / aanververwant ) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Unit 1: Family & HouseholdsEenheid 1: Gesin &
HuishoudingAnthropology (ANT) 214
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Two fundamentally different types of family
1. Nuclear family - based on marital ties (conjugal / aanververwant)
2. Extended family - larger social unit based on blood ties (consanguine / bloedverwant) among three or more generations of kin
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Nuclear Family / Kerngesin
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1. Consists of husband and wife and their children
2. A two-generation family formed around the conjugal or marital union
Most likely found in societies with greatest amount of geographic mobility
3. Declining in the United States◦ a. Women are delaying marrying and having children◦ b. Increased cost of maintaining a middle-class
household has caused couples to opt for remaining childless
◦ c. Increasing divorce rate has contributed to increase in nonnuclear families in recent decades
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Extended Family / Uitgebreide gesin
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1. Blood ties more important than ties of marriage2. Consists of two or more families that are linked
by blood ties3. Based on parent-child linkages4. Obligations to lineage may be more important
than relationship to spouse5. Rough correlation exists between extended
family systems and an agricultural way of life◦ a. Provide large numbers of workers◦ b. Prevent subdivision of land◦ c. Exist where there is a lack of man or woman power
to simultaneously carry out subsistence and domestic tasks
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Polyandrous family / Poliandiese gesin
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Polygynous family / Poliginiese gesin
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Single parent family / Enkelouergesin
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Same-sex family
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Blended family (reconstituded family)
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Cf. ◦Universal nuclear family group (universele kerngesingroep);
nonconjugal family (nie-aanverwante gesin)
◦Elementary conjugal family (elementêre aanverwante gesin)
◦Joint family
◦Composite (compound) family
◦Multi-generational family
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Modern-Day Family Structure
1. Progressive nuclearization of the family in the face of modernization
2. Extended family ties may be preserved (even U.S. has experienced a 38% increase in multi-generational families between 1990-2000.
3. No longer a “typical” family cf. Zhiel
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Households / Huishoudings
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