WGS250H5 Final: Exam Review of Concepts
9 Jul 2012
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Concepts for review: census family, married couple + children (if any, common law couple + children (if any, lone parent + at least one child, grandchildren + grandparents (no parents) Many conceptions of family emphasize or assume a nuclear family: this family form is often seen as natural", normal" and universal. In reality, it is a recent phenomenon, an not nearly as widespread as: nuclear family arrangement thought, many debate the benefits of this family form. According to fox & luxton, nuclear family is often what we think. Regarded by some (malinowski, parsons, popenoe) as the best of as family": normalized & universalized, historically & culturally specific. Nuclear family = marriage, children, heterosexual, blood" relationships. family form, particularly for raising children and benefitting society perceive as the decline or demise of the nuclear family suggest: It is a natural form of family organization. Some (popenoe, most recently) are concerned about what they.
