Sociology 2235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nuclear Family
24 Sep 2020
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Video #1 our family: a film about family diversity. Asks a classroom full of kindergarten children what family means to them, and who/what is included in a family: everyone had different answers as to what constitutes a family. parents, blended, multi-generational, adoption, migrant, etc. Parents are interviewed on their familial circumstances (single parent, same-sex. What changes a group of people who are just hanging out together, to a family? . The children say diversity amongst the families and students in the class is important, so you do not exclude anyone. Showing different types of family structures from different popular north american. Family is quite hard to define, as it continues to go through many changes. It is difficult to identify one conventional definition of family that is accepted within/across academic research, disciplines, and form/informal institutions. Over the past 50 years, certain features of family have been included and excluded in its definition.
