SOC 104 Lecture 6: Family

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 104
• Professor: Laura Thrasher

Document Summary

Two different approaches to sociology of the family: social history, study based on policy analysis and participant interviews. None of the many kinds of families had any magic formula for protecting its members (from socio-economic changes, from abuse, from conflict, from inequalities: 2. The social, cultural, and economic circumstances of today are different from the past (against nostalgia) Traditional family: we usually think of these as independent household anchored by one male breadwinner and one female who raises children, and their biological children. However, from both global and historical perspective, this vision of the independent homemaker-breadwinner household is relatively rare, modern, and short-lived arrangement. Provides the first and immediate context for our physical, emotional, and social development. That power depends on links to other major social institutions. No single or stable definition of family. White picket fence family (nuclear family), extended family, single-parent, same-sex, multi- generational, chosen family, adopted kids, biological kids, family with no kids.