SOC 605 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nuclear Family, Bride Price, Family Medicine

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 605
• Professor: Kelly Train

Document Summary

Chapter 1: de ning families: laws and policies de ne families in this way: Either through blood or through other legal ties: these legal ties can be religious agreements. Weddings agreements can be both religious and secular: historically, blood marriage (marriage of rst cousins) was to keep the blood and values secure. Families were seen through a hegemonic sense through an anglo-saxon, christian, and in a nuclear family: this began through the 1800s with the rst census. However, many families we"re extended because they were mostly immigrant households. These extended families lled out the forms in a nuclear was that the census expected of them. 198x the census makes changed families" into household": however, this caused issues, as household could mean roommates, or your renters so , 199xs they changed it back to families" but it was an open de nition. Census makers to create policies and laws that accurately and appropriately re ect the population.