WGS 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Domestic Partnership In The United States, Pew Research Center, Obstetric Fistula
23 Jul 2016
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The reality of the family as both a major societal institution and a place where individuals experience intimate relationships. The family is constituted through general patterns of behavior that emerge b/c of the specific needs and desires of human beings and b/c of the societal conditions of our lives. Family forms are historically and culturally constructed in global context and that family is a place for the reproduction of power relations both nationally and transitionally. Families worldwide are increasingly shaped not only by social structures within each society, but also by uniquely global forces, including worldwide demographic shifts, transnational, employment across national and political borders, regional and international violence, and worldwide culture systems. Families are part of what social scientists call kinship systems, or patterns of relationships that define family forms. In most societies worldwide people live together on the basis of kinship ties and responsible for raising children.
