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  1. conjugal family. nuclear family, in sociology and anthropology, a group of people who are united by ties of partnership and parenthood and consisting of a pair of adults and their socially recognized children. Typically, but not always, the adults in a nuclear family are married.

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  3. 6 days ago · Explore the concept of the conjugal family, its forms, functions, and significance in society. Learn about the different types of conjugal families and their roles in reproduction and socialization. General Sociology

    • Modernity, Family Patterns, and Kinship Systems
    • A Transhistorical Typology of Kinship and Family Systems
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    There are at least three ways to develop historical typologies related to kinship and family. One way is to hypothesize a linear historical progression, which includes a family type existing at the beginning point in time, a particular historical process that will act upon the family and kinship structures (e.g., urbanization or industrialization),...

    For well over a millennium, church intellectuals have been aware of variations in marital selection and their implications for family structure and kinship ties as well as for social structure. Early in the fifth century, in his De Civitate Dei (City of God), Saint Augustine of Hippo(1984, pp. 623–625) noted that in early biblical times demographic...

    Adams, Bert N. 1968 Kinship in an Urban Setting. Chicago: Markham. Atkins, John R. 1974 "On the Fundamental Consanguineal Numbers and Their Structural Basis" American Ethnologist1:1–31. Attias-Donfut, Claudine 1997 "Home-Sharing and the Transmission of Inheritance in France." In M. Gullestad and M. Segalen, eds., Family and Kinship in Europe. Londo...

  4. The concept of modernization, derived from structural functionalism, and the theories stemming from it have been the dominating perspective in the analysis of global social change and the family since the last quarter of the twentieth century.

  5. Key Points. As a unit of socialization, the family is an object of analysis for sociologists, and is considered to be the agency of primary socialization. A conjugal family includes only the husband, wife, and unmarried children who are not of age. This is also referred to as a nuclear family.

  6. historical research on the family developed further, new findings and approaches led to the revision of the pioneers' findings. Research also expanded chronologi-cally to ancient Greece and Rome, and geographically from Western Europe, North America, and Japan to Northern and Eastern Europe, to southern Italy and the Mediterranean, and to China.

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