SOCIOL 2U06 Study Guide - Final Guide: Talcott Parsons, Social Exchange Theory, Nuclear Family
4 Mar 2013
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Exam: monday dec. 13 12:30 pm (mdcl 1305/1307) 25%, 40 points in total: 20 mc, 10 tf, 2 short answers (5/each) Contested definitions, who is defining family and why. Scholars, religious legal or official based meanings of family. Sociology of the family vs. sociology of the families. The family was the basic institution of society that it was a social economic unit consisting of two adults of the opposite sex who share resources, intimacy, labour, accommodation, reproduction and child rearing. Also, seen as having two parents, one as breadwinner/other = homemaker(shown in tv shows) scholars recognize that previous defin"s were idealized. Families: are a basic social institution, and in the broadest sense are a group of people who have intimate social relationships and a shared history together. Mcdaniel and tepperman common elements or processes fundamental to the social groups we call family. 1) all close relations usually involve some relational type of attatchment, bonding or dependency/interdependency.
