SOCI 2700H Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Nuclear Family, Heterosexuality, Heterogamy
5 Apr 2016
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Nuclear family: two parents with a limited number of children. Extended family: households or households close together where other family members are present (grandparents, aunts, uncles) Structural funcionalism: primary socializaion: children learn the norms and rules of society from the family, stabilizaion: maintaining rouine and keeping adults fully funcioning members of society. Marxist theory: focuses on the inequaliies of the social classes; families were not funcioning for society in general but speciically for capitalist society. Feminist theory: families play a key role in coninuing gender diferences: patriarchy: male dominance, rule of the father. Interacionist theory: focuses on relaionships and responsibiliies interact in everyday life: families are socially structured and diferent members of a family can interpret things diferently, explores how family life is organized from within. Couple formaion: interpersonal atracion, mate selecion, and the early stages of interacion between two individuals. Couple dynamics: the ongoing trajectory of interacions between members of established couples, including marial and non-marial couples.
