FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Common-Law Marriage, Premarital Sex, Assortative Mating

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

Document Summary

Deiniions are important because they construct laws and social expectaions and guide our research and knowledge. Research deiniions of family are always ied to a research quesion and to measurements. Much of our data (e. g. census data) captures only one point in ime and does not trace the major transiions that individuals and families experience. Life course analysis (dynamics) focuses on changes, transiions and lows of people over ime. Kinship systems organize consanguineous descent and ainity in all socieies. Understanding kinship diferences between cultural groups is important in a muli-cultural society. A family is an intergeneraional social group organized and governed by social norms regarding decent, ainity, reproducion and the nuturant socializaion of the young. Glossary: authority paterns: social norms establish who is expected to make decisions in the family. In patriarchal (papa) systems, the husband or father is expected to be the head of the household.