SOC 271 Study Guide - Winter 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Canada, Cohabitation, Socialization
12 Oct 2018
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DEFINING FAMILY
The family is a social group, a social system and a social institution.
Social group – collection of persons
Social system – interdependent components
Social institution – fulfills societal goals
Anthropologists and Sociologists of the 1940s to 1970s defined the family as:
consisting of two adults of the opposite sex who shared economic resources, sexual intimacy,
labour, accommodation, reproduction and child rearing, and provided each other with
companionship, assistance, love and respect, heirs, and social status (Murdock, 1949; Goode,
1964).
Statistics Canada (2001) definition: A esus faily a e ay of the folloig:
- a married couple (with or without children of either or both spouses); A couple may be of
opposite sex or same sex.
- a couple living common-law (with or without children of either or both spouses); A couple may
be of opposite sex or same sex.
- a lone parent of any marital status, with at least one child living in the same dwelling.
The term children refers to blood, step- or adopted sons and daughters (regardless of age or
marital status) who are living in the same dwelling as their parent(s), as well as grandchildren in
households where there are no parents present.
Sons and daughters who are living with their spouse or common-law partner, or with one or
more of their own children, are not considered to be part of the census family of their
parent(s), even if they are living in the same dwelling.
Also, sons or daughters who do not live in the same dwelling as their parent(s) are not
considered members of the census family of their parent(s).
- economic family – refers to people who are related by blood ties, marriage, or legal adoption
and are sharing a dwelling
- household - refers to people sharing a dwelling, whether or not they are related by blood ties,
legal adoption, or marriage
1. Emily Nett (1993)
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. . . it appears that the essee of a faily group is that the persos ho ostitute it ad ho
interact with each other in a meaningful context are osidered to e related to eah other.
2. Judith Stacey (1993)
… the faily is ot a istitutio, ut a ideologial, syoli ostrut that has a history
ad a politis.
3. Margrit Eichler (1988)
A faily is a soial group hih ay or ay not include adults of both sexes (e.g., lone-parent
families), may or may not include one or more children (e.g., childless couples), who may or
may not have been born in their wedlock (e.g., adopted children, or children by one adult
partner of a previous union). The relationship of the adults may or may not have its origin in
marriage (e.g., common-law couples), they may or may not share a common residence (e.g.,
commuting couples). The adults may or may not cohabit sexually, and the relationship may or
ay ot iole suh soially pattered feeligs as loe, attratio, piety, or ae.
Margrit Eichler - EIGHT DIMENSIONS of the family:
- Marital Dimension
- Procreative Dimension
- Socialization Dimension
- Social Dimension
- Sexual Dimension
- Residential Dimension
- Economic Dimension
- Emotional Dimension
SOCIOLOGY OF THE FAMILY:
Sociology is the controlled observation and interpretation of differing patterns of human
relationships, their sources and consequences
1. limitless number of social aggregations
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Document Summary
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