SOC244H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sociology Of The Family, Nuclear Family, Friedrich Engels
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Introduction most of our talk about families is clouded by unexplored notions of what families really are like confusing ideal notion with reality this essay is divided into 3 parts: examines what social scientists mean by the family . Focuses on work of bronislaw malinowski (family is a human institution: reviews the work of social scientists whom malinowski refuted, draws on the correct insights if 19th century theorists to sketch some implications of viewing the. Family not as a concrete institution designed to fulfill universal human needs but as an ideological construct associated with the modern state. The function of nurturance onto a collectivity of specific persons (presumably nuclear relations) associated with specific spaces (the home ) and specific affective bonds ( love ) Social evolution argued that primitives were sexually promiscuous therefore they were unable to become families because children would not recognize their fathers.
