SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Single Parent, Nuclear Family, Family Therapy
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4 principles: social/historical context, relations with people, timing of events, agency (within constraints) The life course perspective looks at how these four factors impact the trajectory of people"s lives. Stages, transitions, & turning points that are embedded in institutions & subject to historical change. These life course principles are often linked to social institutions. Social institutions are patterns of behavior (norms) that are connected to organized areas of social life. The importance of a college degree in today"s world. What is a family: what we consider a family changes. And even between different groups in the geographic area. Family in early america (1500-1800: native americans, most north american indigenous groups organized their societies around family, but family was usually a large kin group. E. g. murder was a crime against your kin, not a crime against the state : often the elders of each kin group made village decisions (political power was connected to family)
