SOAN 3100 Chapter 1: SOAN 3100 - Chapter 1

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 3100
• Professor: Sharada Srnivasan

Document Summary

Analyzing the familiar: definitions, approaches and issues at the. Extended family: a type of family more complex than the nuclear family (e. g. more than just child-parent and spouse relationships). Key: describing persons as part of your family indicate that these individuals provide significant emotional and personal support. We cannot forget the meanings described by popular culture. Family is central to many common sense ideologies. For example, biology is a given, thus reproduction seems to naturally happen with heterosexual families. But challenges arise due to some parents never taking care of their children (child support), homosexual relationships, sperm donors/surrogate mothers has changed traditional practices through out the years. Pro family groups: they blame many social problems on those who do not conform to the traditional patterns of the family, thus, they want a family to symbolize what is seen to be the traditional family pattern. Formal definitions: family is a legal term that determines specific rights and obligations for certain persons.