FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Extended Family, Nuclear Family

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Shayna Sparling

Document Summary

Normaive deiniion- shared by majority of people in country/ region, pracice/acion regarded as socially legit and approved, someimes legal deiniions out of sync with social norms (ex. Waiing in line out of politeness ), applied context- social norms in a society. Research deiniion- derived from social theory, problem or a hunch (having sex more oten increases marital saisfacion), must be measureable (ex. Negaive outcomes from refugee families, marital saisfacion), context: research design and theory dvlpmt. Basic deiniion: group of people who share a legal bond (can be changed) or blood bond (individual directly related through ancestor)is a family. Nuclear family (congical family) - parents and their children living in same home, some defs ony allow biological kids, other allow adopted, etc. Extended family (joint or muligeneraional family)- all relaives are in close proximity with each other, all live together and share household duies,