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A joint family household system was characterized by earlier marriage for women, co-residence with the husband's family or patrilocality, and co-residing of multiple generations. Many households consisted of unrelated servants and apprentices residing for periods of years, and at that time, belonging to the family. [ 33 ]
Sociology of the family is a subfield of sociology in which researchers and academics study family structure as a social institution and unit of socialization from various sociological perspectives. It can be seen as an example of patterned social relations and group dynamics .
Family, Household: Small group of people who live in the same home. Family may or may not form clan , fellowship, larger kinship groups, or a basic unit of community. Various cultures include different models of households, including the nuclear family , blended families , share housing , and group homes .
The Bott Hypothesis is a thesis first advanced in Elizabeth Bott's Family and Social Networks (1957), one of the most influential works published in the sociology of the family. Elizabeth Bott's hypothesis holds that the connectedness or the density of a husband's and wife's separate social networks is positively associated with marital role ...
On the other hand, Gilman's concept of "Germanic societies", characterized by "1) the autonomy of households (which are the basic units of production); 2) the coalition of households that makes up the community, which takes the form of tribal assemblies with authority in matters of war, religion, and legal disputes; and 3) hereditary leadership ...
A Sociology of Family Life: Change and Diversity in Intimate Relations (2022) Coontz, Stephanie. "'Leave It to Beaver' and 'Ozzie and Harriet': American Families in the 1950s." in Undoing Place? (Routledge, 2020) pp. 22–32. Degler, Carl. At Odds: Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present (1980).
In 1956, the concept of the matrifocal family was introduced to the study of Caribbean societies by Raymond T. Smith. He linked the emergence of matrifocal families with how households are formed in the region: "The household group tends to be matri-focal in the sense that a woman in the status of 'mother' is usually the de facto leader of the group, and conversely the husband-father, although ...
The term blended family or stepfamily describes families with mixed parents: one or both parents remarried, bringing children of the former family into the new family. [44] Also in sociology, particularly in the works of social psychologist Michael Lamb, [45] traditional family refers to "a middle-class family with a bread-winning father and a ...