SOC 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nuclear Family, Extended Family, Structural Inequality
11 Dec 2017
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Concerns over the family do pop up again and again since at least the 80s. Socialization - the process in which we learn who we are and learn how to function in society. Primary socialization takes place within loved ones - such as family. Secondary socialization takes place in wider society - such as socializing institutions that could be like schools, churches, workplace, peer groups, media, etc . Sociologists do not agree of what the exact role of the family is on young people and what an ideal family looks like. However they do agree that the family is an important site of socialization, parents are shown to be important because of educational, vocational (professional), and economic decisions. Parents have a role is socializing the young person, especially if the parent share a disability or racial experience similar to the child. Popular culture suggests in history that family used to be a stable institution.
