SOCC24H3 Lecture Notes - Nuclear Family, Fictive Kinship, Social Capital
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An institution is a recognized area of social life that is organized along a system of widely accepted norms that regulate behaviors. The element of organization and norms contribute to the predictability of life; people know to expect, it is shared culture. Over-time, each society evolves a set of norms or rules that guides the behaviors of family members toward one another and institutions. Another key institution in a society are the religious, educational, economic as well as political contexts. Canadian society is constituted by people from many different backgrounds, and changes have become a part of the institution of family, as it is in nearly all large societies of the world. Although family forms may change, the institution itself remains while its functions evolve and even multiply. A family is a social group, an institution, an intergenerational group of individuals related to one another by blood, adoption or marriage/cohabitation. It is a group that endures over several generations.
