FNF 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nuclear Family

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Family Studies
• Course: FNF 100
• Professor: Dan Mahoney

Document Summary

Politics: great debate, mostly in the us, about what constitutes a family, who are the players, what do they look like, same sex marriage debates --> highly politicized. Ideological: a belief system --> what people believe to be true, increasingly, families have been defined around ideological. Cultural: culture can be based on ancestry, ethnicity, but can be based on language, can be very broad. Even at any one time, within any society, there are always several dif types of families: ex. After wwi --> lots of widows in europe and n. america, and asia, and lots of single mothers b/c husbands had died at war --> broadened up the context of dif families that are out there. Functioning between dif family types tend to be similar: ex. Choice: in the 21st century, choice is a term that is talked about quite a bit --> fairly new phenomenon, more options than there ever was before.