The company are constituted of social divers groups, who set the individual having the common characteristic like the richest, the power, the culture and so on. The family, who is the most elementary between them, is also one of most important for it’s the first group which belong individual and it’s inside that he begins to live in society : the family is the base group of our society, in constant evolution. The families members are united by the legal
links, by the right and obligations of economic nature, religious or other, by a sharp network of right and forbiden sexuality, and a whole variable and diversificate of psycologics feelings such as love, affection, respect, fear and so on. In this days, we can define the family like articulation of
union links, of
relationship and twice births. This definition of the familly like function allow don’t pre-establish this content : today a familly don’t take necessarly his origin in the
wedding (
free union), she can associated the people of same sexe or the recomposition relatives.The family is in the same time groupment and social institution (in
sens of that who create a link and pre-existant socials representations). A mistake haven’t done is to confuse “household” and “relative”. In an figure example, we have seen that only seventy per cent of household are the family, and that the thirty per cent left are composed as a alone man, as a alone woman. To form a family ( a close sens), he do not only live together but also have the links of connections : we talk here of “nuclar family” or “domestic group”. If the individual haven’t that the links of relationship, but they don’t live together , we’ll talk of “family to large sens” again named “kinship”. The family term to close sens show to against a whole of persons living in the same household and owned the connections links. The strict conditions being on : age, the sexe and the absence of relationship between the futur spouse are demanded. In return, the “pacsés” will be jointly responsable of debts of couple. The couples in free union had obtainted the socials rights. For summary, is it that these worthed the penality of disqualified the worths of free union, with this risks and this nobility, for invent a union contrat of secondary zone? With the endomy et exogamy, we have seen that the obligatory rules could restrain the choice of spouse in the usual society. The
filiation is the sociale recognition of links between individuals that descend the one, the other. In France, three types of filiation are reconized : the legitimate filiation (children born of wedding parents), natural (couple no wedding) and adoptive. Each society in small numerous serve of filiation for broaden the choice the partnership, in excluding the one of two line of the relationship.
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