HDFS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Apache Hadoop
3 Sep 2016
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What is family: different meanings to different people or groups. Official u. s. census definition: two or more persons related by blood, marriage, or adoption. Household: all persons (1+) who occupy a dwelling such as a house. Informal definition: a group of people who love and care for each other: typically viewed as a symbol of decency, the concept of family is changing. Traditional concept: love, permanence, children, sexually exclusive, homemakers, intergenerational continuity. In the u. s. , the typical family was viewed as two parents with the husband employed outside of home while the mother takes care of children. Modern concept: more diversity, looser definitions based more on emotion than blood/legal relation. Media today displays different family structures: ex. Full house, malcolm in the middle, modern family, Examples of modern family structures: female-headed households are extremely common. Two views on the changing concept of family. Pessimistic: families are falling apart; we need to go back to the.
