SOCI 210 Lecture 1: Notes SOCI 210 2 pdf
19 Jun 2016
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Social institutions are established or standardized patterns of rule-governed behaviour. We consider family as the most basic unit. Sociologists view marriage and families as societal institutions that help create the basic unit of social structure. Both marriage and a family may be de ned differently and practiced differently in cultures across the world. Families and marriages, like other institutions, adapt to social change. What is marriage: marriage(social institution) is commonly defined as a legally or ritually recognized social contract between two or more people, traditionally based on a sexual relationship. But the last time polygamy was prosecuted in canada was more than 60 years ago. We are not prosecuting them even there"s lots many remain, parts cuz you can"t prosecute a culture, and the problem like child abuse gender discrimination exist in all other families. !1: a mormon family with two wives and nine children, in 1875 polygamous marriages have existed for millennia.
