SOC100H5 Final: Exam Review-Sociology
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The family: the sit of love, exploitation, and oppression. Functionalism appears to offer a comprehensive theory that accounts for all the essential features of family, as we know it in industrial society. The heterosexual pair bonding at the core of any family system stems from biological imperatives- not merely the sex drive, but the need for long-term nurturing of newborn infants and children. In eichler"s view, such theorizing is flawed by four major biases: monolithic, conservative, sexist and microstructural. Monolithic bias: the assertion that a particular phenomenon is uniform throughout, allowing no variation. The male is not always in the dominant position of being in control. Nayar family from india, jamaican poor black family. Not every family consists of common-law couples that live together. Reconstituted couples where one or both spouses may have children living elsewhere, single-parent families, and homosexual families. Socialization: sometimes parents do not live in the same household.
