SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Surrogacy, Human Cloning, Friedrich Engels

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Carolyn Gordon

Document Summary

Defining family the word family means something different to everyone. As the nature of family life and work has changed in high-, middle-, and low-income nations, the issue of what constitutes a family has been widely debated. (standard sociological de nition) family: a group of people who are related to on another by bonds of blood, marriage, or adoption who live together. Family: a relationship in which people live together with commitment, form an economic unit and care for young signi cantly attached to the group. Kinship: a social network of people based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption. Family of orientation: the family where a person is born in which early socialization usually takes place. Family of procreation: the family that a person forms by having or adoption children. Extended families: a family unit composed of relatives in addition to the parents and children who live in the same household.