ANT 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nuclear Family, Air Canada, Heterosexuality

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ANT 2103
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
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ā€¢ā€¢" What is a family?#
ā€¢o"We are so ā€œfamiliarā€ that family implicitly appears as a self-evident institution, a
natural ā€œgivenā€ #
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"ā€œpopular representationā€ of family .. media representation, ā€œnuclearā€ 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 doesnā€™t 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¬ƒcial-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. ā€œchildrenā€
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:#
ā€¢ " ā€¦#
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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ANT 2103
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 donā€™t 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€¢" ā€œhospitalā€ 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 phenomenaā€™s
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ā€¢ There are diļ¬€erent deļ¬nitions of family: #
ā€¢Religious, legal, / oļ¬ƒcial - 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€¢ā€œleave it to Beaverā€#
ā€¢Gendered roles#
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