SOC100 Lecture : Chapter 11 Families
22 Dec 2011
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Defining families y murdoch defined families as: a social groups characterized by common residence, economic cooperation, and reproduction. Nuclear family: adult male, adult female, and offspring. Extended family: multiple generations co-residing y family of orientation: the family into which one was born y family of procreation: the family one creates by having children or adopting children. A couple may be of opposite y economic family: a group of 2 or more persons who live in the same dwelling and are related to each other by blood, marriage, common-law or adoption. A couple may be of opposite sex. sex. Eichler (1990) y monolithic bias; one ideal type of family is considered normal y. Important aspects of family: socialization, emotional relationships, residence, economics, sexuality, and reproduction y how we define family has important consequences for how we are situated in relation to social institutions. Marriage y civil marriage act bill c-38 y.
