HREQ 1800 Lecture 5: The Family (10_10_2017)

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1800
• Professor: Livy Visano

Document Summary

What is a family? a social group characterized by common residence, economic cooperation, and reproduction. It includes adults of both sexes, at least two of whom maintain a socially-approved sexual relationship, and one or more children, own or adopted, of the sexually co-habitating adults (murdock 1949/1960: 1). based on patriarchy; a man(cid:1442)s voice is the loudest/powerful abuse of the term (cid:1441)family(cid:1442) women seen as property. A contemporary definition as a group of individuals who identify their social alliances with one another as family relationships, whether by choice or cultural tradition. Malinowski further argued that families must be universal because they fulfill basic human needs in three ways: 1, by maintaining distinguishable boundaries between family members and outsiders; 2, by designating space where child-rearing tasks are performed; and. 3, by providing love and affection to one another (collier et al. , 2001). Most violent institution in the world (worse than the military, school, etc. , as they do not promise to love)