family of procreation
(noun)
the idea that the goal of a family is to produce and enculturate and socialize children
Examples of family of procreation in the following topics:
-
Family
- A family serves to reproduce society biologically, through procreation, and socially, through the socialization of children.
- The primary function of the family is to reproduce society, both biologically through procreation and socially through socialization.
- From the perspective of children, the family is a family of orientation: the family functions to locate children socially, and plays a major role in their socialization.
- From the point of view of the parent(s), the family is a family of procreation: The family functions to produce and socialize children.
- Analyze the pivotal role a family plays in the socialization of children and the continuation of society through procreation
-
The Functions of a Family
- The primary function of the family is to perpetuate society, both biologically through procreation, and socially through socialization.
- The primary function of the family is to ensure the continuation of society, both biologically through procreation, and socially through socialization.
- From the point of view of the parents, the family's primary purpose is procreation: The family functions to produce and socialize children.
- From the perspective of children, the family is a family of orientation: The family functions to locate children socially, and plays a major role in their socialization.
- From the point of view of the parents, the family is a family of procreation: The family functions to produce and socialize children
-
Families and Theory
- The primary function of the procreative families (e.g., families built around the pursuit of parenthood) is to reproduce society, biologically through procreation, socially through socialization, or in both ways.
- Given these functions, one's experience of one's family shifts over time.
- From the perspective of children, the family is a family of orientation: the family functions to locate children socially, and plays a major role in their socialization.
- From the point of view of the parent(s), the family is a family of procreation: the family functions to produce and socialize children.
- No society does all of these; no one of these is universal, and many people different societies lack access to whatever marital and family privileges available in their given social context.
-
The Three Sovereigns
- The first part of the Mythical Period was under the rule of the Three Sovereigns, magical demigods who created the human race out of clay and introduced agriculture.
- Because of their virtue, they lived to a great age and ruled over a period of great peace.
- In legend, Fuxi and Nüwa were together responsible for the procreation of the human race.
- During his reign he introduced the domestication of animals and founded the basic social structure of family life.
- Describe the rulers of the first part of the Mythical Period, the Three Sovereigns
-
Biology of Sexual Behavior
- Different sexes are anatomically very similar; however, they each have different physical mechanisms that enable them to perform sexual acts and procreate.
- Males also have both internal and external genitalia that are responsible for procreation and sexual intercourse.
- Social factors such as work and family also have an impact, as do internal psychological factors like personality and stress.
- Studies with lab animals have shown that destruction of certain areas of the hypothalamus causes complete elimination of sexual behavior.
- Like females, males have both internal and external genitalia that are responsible for procreation and sexual intercourse.
-
Marriage and Responsibility
- People marry for love, for socioeconomic stability, to start a family, and to create obligations between one another.
- The reasons people marry vary widely, but usually include publicly and formally declare their love, the formation of a single household unit, legitimizing sexual relations and procreation, social and economic stability, and the education and nurturing of children.
- The act of marriage creates obligations between the individuals involved and, in some societies, between the parties' extended families.
- As of 2003, one's level of educational attainment was a significant predictor of the educational attainment of one's spouse.
- Part of the reason why education is so influential in determining the level of education of one's spouse is because people tend to form groups based on levels of education.
-
The Nature of Marriage
- Other forms of marriage also exist, however.
- The reasons people marry vary widely, but usually include the desire to publicly and formally declare their love, to form a single household unit, to legitimize sexual relations and procreation, for social and economic stability, and for the education and nurturing of children.
- The act of marriage creates obligations between the individuals involved, and, in some societies, between the parties' extended families.
- Outside of the traditional marriage between monogamous heterosexual couples, other forms of marriage exist.
- Group marriage is a form of polyamory in which more than two persons form a family unit.
-
The Sexual Revolution
- Beginning in San Francisco in the mid-1960s, this culture of "free love" was propagated by thousands of hippies who preached the power of love and the beauty of sex.
- The International Planned Parenthood Federation was founded in 1946 and soon became the world's largest non-governmental, international family-planning organization.
- The spread of oral contraceptive use thus led many religious figures and institutions to debate the proper role of sexuality and its relationship to procreation.
- Opponents of the Pill, and the sexual freedom it provided to women, frequently cite the rise of out-of-wedlock births, sexually transmitted diseases, teen pregnancy, and divorce rates as evidence of the regression of quality of life since the advent of the Pill.
- This program typified the traditional 1950s nuclear family structure; by the 1960s, this was changing.
-
The Eugenics Movement
- Researchers interested in familial mental disorders conducted studies to document the heritability of such illnesses as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression.
- Rather than true science, though, Eugenics was merely an ill-considered social philosophy aimed at improving the quality of the human population by increasing reproduction between those with genes considered desirable – Nordic, Germanic and Anglo-Saxon peoples – and limiting procreation by those whose genetic stock was seen as less favorable or unlikely to improve the human gene pool.
- Leonard Darwin, son of Charles, presided over the meeting of about 400 delegates from numerous countries – including British luminaries such as the Chief Justice Lord Balfour, and the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill – and served as an indication of the growing popularity of the Eugenics movement.
- This led to passage of the federal Immigration Act of 1924, which reduced the number of immigrants from abroad to 15 percent from previous years.
- A half-cousin of Charles Darwin, Francis Galton founded field of Eugenics and promoted the improvement of the human gene pool through selective breeding.
-
The Nature of a Family
- As a unit of socialization, the family is the object of analysis for certain scholars.
- In sociological literature, the most common form of this family is often referred to as a nuclear family.
- A "matrilocal" family consists of a mother and her children.
- Common in the western societies, the model of the family triangle, where the husband, wife, and children are isolated from the outside, is also called the oedipal model of the family.
- As a unit of socialization, the family is the object of analysis for sociologists of the family.