SOC 2103 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Nuclear Family, Group Marriage, Friedrich Engels

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2103
• Professor: Kristen Tole

Document Summary

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. Social forms and structures within a wider society: you cannot talk about family without having a wider context. Law: this tells us what our obligations are to and for others. Social resources: we need a definition of family in order to know how resources should be allocated and how they are used. Identities: these occupy social forms and come with roles and obligations. Basic units of marital or family systems are inter-related statuses (positions) and the expectations (roles) accompanying statuses. Socialization: learning the norms of your family and society. Realization of personal satisfaction: your family is supposed to support you. Social control : this dictates what you can or cannot do, reinforcing the socialization done: ostracism is a negative outcome of social control. These are groups that teach you things that you don"t learn from home: e. g.