SOC101Y1 Lecture : Couples and Their Networks
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For exam: how does network change in daily process. Contacts: the nuclear families are not isolated, but they have regular contacts with their friends and relatives. In many cases, important exchanges involve immediate kinship circles drawn from the couples" families of origin (parents and siblings) and their own children. Psychological and emotional supports and cognitive importance in the development of personal identity: not necessarily overlapped with interaction of networks (only 25%) Families as ponds of orientational others, by social comparison, play significant roles in people"s identity development: the cognitive significance of friends depends on gender and social status (voluntary choice) Structural features of couple"s networks: who compose couples" networks? i. 4/10 friends, 3/10 kin, and neighbors, colleagues and acquaintances construct only a minor part: women are more central in kinship (as kin keepers) while men in a wider range of people iii. iv. of different backgrounds.
