SOCIOL 111AC Lecture 2: SOC 111AC___1

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Who is in my family:
- Parents and sister
- Grandparents, uncles & aunts, and cousins
- Distant cousins, best friends
What do families do:
- financial and emotional support
- Place of refuge and emotion
- educate the children
- Organize care for people who cant
- Legal aspect: parental responsibilities
- parents are legally obligated for materially provide for their children (food, shelter)
- If they don’t the kids may get taken by childcare
- You are not legally obligated to care for other family members who are over 18
Our focus: the PUBLIC family
- The family as a social institution we depend on to perform socially important functions
Along with the social patterns of private families
- Individual decisions about romance, partners, residence, childbearing, division of
labor, gender relations.
- Who will you partner with, for how long, what kind of relationship will you have, will
you have children, will you live together, how are you gonna divide labor, etc.
Changes in the private aspect of families bring change to the public family
- Gay couples are now more recognized as families
- Child bearing. Who is the mother? Who should care for the child?
- The age of marriage has changed. People get married when they are older and this
brings changes to the workplace, and to what is socially acceptable in terms of when
to get married.
- Gender roles in the home (e.g. home dads)
- Who is in the household, places of residence, taxes
Defining a family
Does it matter?
Overlapping between private and public family is a privilege.
- Being able to be recognized as a family
- Being able to be enrolled in health insurance, parental rights (be able to make
decisions for your children/family) because you're recognized as family
Modern Families
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Parents are legally obligated for materially provide for their children (food, shelter) If they don t the kids may get taken by childcare. You are not legally obligated to care for other family members who are over 18. The family as a social institution we depend on to perform socially important functions. Along with the social patterns of private families. Individual decisions about romance, partners, residence, childbearing, division of labor, gender relations. Who will you partner with, for how long, what kind of relationship will you have, will you have children, will you live together, how are you gonna divide labor, etc. Changes in the private aspect of families bring change to the public family. Gay couples are now more recognized as families. People get married when they are older and this brings changes to the workplace, and to what is socially acceptable in terms of when to get married. Gender roles in the home (e. g. home dads)

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