The family is a fundamental and complex component of all human
societies. Primarily concerned with the organization and regulation
of sexual relations and procreation, it is also an organizer of
economic production, social division of labour, and the
distribution of property, as well as the socialization of children
and the care of the elderly or disadvantaged. The family as an
institution lies at the intersection of nature and culture, because
it is fundamentally concerned with certain elementary biological
functions (birth and death), and is a major vehicle for the
transfer of culture. It is also part of the apparatus of social
control in human societies. Scholarly definitions and theories of
the family are correspondingly complex and controversial. The works
selected here form a cross-section of the landmarks in this
developing field in the 19th and early-20th centuries. This
collection traces the sociology of the family from its origins in
the anthropological study of kinship in the late-19th century;
includes examples of early-20th-century studies on family
relations, which propose practical solutions to the problems of
domestic breakdown and violence and the emergence of the
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