Groups and individuals often dislike being "placed into a box". But how to approach these processes with the tools of contemporary social sciences? This lexicon proposes a toolbox of categorization processes in 48 notes.it shows the way researchers in social sciences and humanities make use of these concepts, with current illustrations of them.

This story contributes to denaturalizing the family and the couple by showing the historical conditions of the emergence, promotion, and imposition of a patriarchal marital model.