SOC 10000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nuclear Family, List Of Black Mirror Episodes, Multiple Birth
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Family forms and changes: historically, interracial partnerships have been prohibited but the. The normative traditional family is one which a heterosexual couple lives with their dependent children in a self-contained, economically independent household. Bronislaw malinowski found that the australian aboriginals recognized family relations and kept them distinct from other forms of social connection. Malinowski argued that the family, in addition to being a universal phenomenon, was necessary institution for fulfilling the task of child rearing in society. A nuclear family, a familial form consisting of a father, mother, and their children, was a functional necessity in modern industrial society because it was most compatible with fulfilling society"s need for productive workers and child nurturers. A functional need is not sufficient cause for the development of an institution, especially not when other kinds of institutions can perform the function just as well: the family in the western world today.
