ANT 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nuclear Family, Air Canada, Heterosexuality
ANT 2103
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
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ā¢ā¢" What is a family?#
ā¢o"We are so āfamiliarā that family implicitly appears as a self-evident institution, a
natural āgivenā #
ā¢o"Some people think family is universal ... not completely true #
ā¢o"Diļ¬erent people, diļ¬erent thoughts on what family is#
ā¢o"Some people consider pets, best friends as family#
ā¢o"āpopular representationā of family .. media representation, ānuclearā family, main
stream, parents are heterosexual#
ā¢o"popular representation ... make us think that this family type is universal #
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ā¢o"pets are considered as family in 50% of households ā¦ pet owners are said to
spend more money on pets than their own children#
ā¢o"human and non-human#
ā¢ā¢" Family is not naturalā¦ is motherhood natural#
ā¢o"The connection between and her children and doesnāt always and everywhere
have the eļ¬ect that the mother is responsible for raising her children#
ā¢o"Among the tupi kawahib Indians of central brazil, where a man can marry
several sisters, / a mother and daughters she has had other men, the children,
are raised by all co-owners #
ā¢o"There are societies where family, understood as quasi-permanent associations
of a man, a woman and their children#
ā¢ā¢" Deļ¬nitions of family ā¦: religious, legal, / oļ¬cial-based meaning of family, and may not
be consistent with public / scholarly deļ¬nition. #
ā¢ā¢" Statistic Canada deļ¬nition of family: #
ā¢o"A married couple (with / w/o children of either / both spouses), a couple living
common ā law (w/ or w/o children of either or both partners,0 or a lone parent
of any marital status, with at least one child living in the same dwelling. A
couple living in common law may be of opposite sex or same sex. āchildrenā
in a census family includes blood, step -, or adopted sons and daughters
(regardless of age / marital status) who are living with their parent(s), as well as
grandchildren living with their grandparent(s) but with no parents present. #
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ā¢o"Aboriginal families in Canada have a diļ¬erent conception of a family#
ā¢o"Economic#
ā¢o"Correctional service of Canada family deļ¬nition:#
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ā¢ā¢" Air Canada deļ¬nition of family:#
ā¢o"ā¦ #
ā¢ā¢" economic deļ¬nition of family:#
ā¢o"restaurants, museums, and amusement parks oļ¬er special deals only to
families. Of course, they often have some kind of deļ¬nition of what constitutes
a family.#
ā¢ā¢" Nuclear family:#
ā¢o"Husband, wife and children#
ā¢ā¢" Extended Family:#
ā¢o"Family of orientation: the family that we are born into and raised in #
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Tuesday, January 16, 2018
ā¢o"Family of procreation: the family that we form through marriage and co-
habitation, and in which we raise our children#
ā¢ā¢" Many families donāt ļ¬t into these categories
ā¢ā¢" Intentional families: two or more individuals, not related by blood or marriage, who call
themselves a family and may share residence, ļ¬nances, a common lifestyle
ā¢ā¢" Ideological responses
ā¢ā¢" Diļ¬erent theories
ā¢ā¢" Deļ¬nition of family has a political representation
ā¢ā¢" āhospitalā situation: who is considered family?
ā¢ā¢" What is a theory?
ā¢o"The process of systematically developing and organizing ideas to explain
phenomena, and a theory is the total set of empirically testable,
interconnected ideas formulated to explain those phenomenaās
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Tuesday, January 16, 2018
ā¢ There are diļ¬erent deļ¬nitions of family: #
ā¢Religious, legal, / oļ¬cial - based meanings of family, and may not be consistent with
public / scholarly deļ¬nitions#
ā¢Many ideological responses#
ā¢No single deļ¬nition#
ā¢Deļ¬nition of family is socio-historical situated : deļ¬nitions change according to culture,
time and space#
ā¢ā¦ diļ¬erent theories : theory is also related with society (old thinking) .. connected with
values of society#
ā¢ Structural Functionalist Theory:#
ā¢Family is understood as a social institution #
ā¢Other institutions: schools, workplaces, and the healthcare system #
ā¢Place of socialization, value and norms and shaped individually #
ā¢institution: an institution is a structured set of value, norms, roles and behaviours shared
by a number of individuals#
ā¢An organization food for a religious, educational, professional / social purpose#
ā¢Institution also plays the role of a place of socialization for individuals#
ā¢Family is a social institution, and is the main institution according to theorists #
ā¢Idea of function#
ā¢Focuses on stability ā¦ ignores topics such as abuse and violence#
ā¢Tends to assume that society has one set of norms and values, something that is not true
of a multicultural society such as Canada#
ā¢Father/husband - ļ¬nancial#
ā¢Women - personal care of family members .. especially children#
ā¢The family as a social institution #
ā¢Five basic functions#
ā¢Reproduction#
ā¢Socialization#
ā¢A lifelong process in which the cultural knowledge of how to survive and how to
take part in social life is passed on to each generation;#
ā¢Socialization is the process of learning and internalization of cultural models,
values and social norms that make possible the integration of individuals into
the society #
ā¢Question: can you identify some knowledge that you learned by socialization
in your family? #
ā¢Social placement#
ā¢Economic support#
ā¢Emotional support#
ā¢For structural functionalists, when the family performs all these functions well, social
stability results #
ā¢āleave it to Beaverā#
ā¢Gendered roles#
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