SOC 605 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Socialist Feminism, Determinism, Symbolic Interactionism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 605
• Professor: Kelly Train

Document Summary

Sociological theories on families: meaning of family. Famulus- referred to servants in the household and then evolved to familia. They lived under the master"s rules, it was the eldest member of the extended household. Census= now canada looks at what the family is and in what ways they"ve changed. Term family refers to everyone in the household; the patriarch, the wife, the children and as well as the servants. By 1800"s the term family came into the english language. After the late 1400"s the term family starts to change to reflect the idea of a common lineage or a common blood line race was religion until 1400"s. Family the term changes to just the owner and the extended family in the late. Religion (pre 1850: patriarchal theory of the family. People start to look at the story of adam and eve.