[FRHD 1020] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (31 pages long)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Shayna Sparling

Document Summary

Unmarried, gay/lesbian, single parent, different races, no children. Who can have custody: not a definition of the family, each province/territory has legislation about families, tend to change over time. Normative: shared by majority of people in a country or region, practice of action regarded as socially legitimate and approved. Divorce was legal but disapproved: legal definitions can be out of sync with social norms. Applied context: social norms in a society. Research: derived from a: social theory; social problem; hunch, must be measurable. Applied context: research design and theory development. Basic definition: a group of people who share a legal or blood bond is a family: legal bond: marriage, adoptions, guardianships. Changed, severed, expanded, dissolved: blood bonds: directly related. Nuclear family: parents and children living in the same house, living in same residence. Extended family: all relatives that are in close proximity, all live together and hare household duties.