FRHD 1020 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Pflag, Norm (Social), Social Control

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Ruth Neustifter

Document Summary

People who share, love, care, and support each other. Parents, families and friends of lesbians and gays (pflag) National support, education and advocacy organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, their families, friends and allies. Legal: relations to family law are about custody, maintenance, common law relations and cohabitation. Not a definition of family per se. Each province has their own legislation about family: legal definitions change over time and also depend on your field, context: enforceable, legislation laws. Normative: shared by the majority of people in a country or region, practice or action regarded as socially legitimate and approved, sometimes legal definitions are out of synch with social norms. Definitions have broadened: context: social norms in a society. Social constructions: social constructions of family gain power when adherents of a perspective increase in number. Social constructions of marriage now include gay and lesbian marriage. Theoretical: uses concepts and propositions from a social science theory.