CHI 123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cultural Capital, Social Capital, Working Poor
2 May 2018
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4/12/18 – THE WORLD OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH, CONT.
The Family
• Important factors to consider:
o Family structure
o Family boundaries
o Faily’s relatioship to the means of production
o Faily’s ultural apital
o Faily’s ultural ealth
o Rituals and traditions
Family Structure
• Partly determined by Who is in the household:
• Extended
o Consists of multiple generations under one roof
• Nuclear
o 2 parent household
o Heterosexual/LGBT
o Mixed race/multiracial
• Blended
o Formed after re-marriage or re-coupling
o Whose children are in the house
o Visitation rights and practices
• Transnational
o Mixed status families
o Post deportation
o Pre-reunification
Family Subsystems
• Families function on the basis of subsystems.
o Executive – who makes and enforces the rules.
▪ Can be two parents, a parent and a grandparent, or parent and older child.
o Parental – two parents (who may or may not live together).
o Sibling
o Grandparent
o Padrinos & madrinos
o Fictive kin
Family Boundaries
• Boundaries between subsystems can be:
• Permeable
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