SOCL 2001 : Sociology 1001 Notes For Test 4
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*family as one of the social institutions: interdependence: we need to look at the family how it is related to education, politics, etc. Connection with other things: in other countries they look at family different than us. When we talk about an extended family we usually talk about an extended family household. Nuclear/extended, modified extended fam. , extended family and race/ethnicity: nuclear family, is a man and women, can have kids or no kids. Every nuclear household has to have more than one person: extended family is extended from there. Hispanic have about 25% extended household but extension is different: we use family in different ways, modified extended family: is who you called your family, not just who you life with. Family of orientation/procreation: family of orientation: the family in which you came from, family or procreation: family with wife, and kids. What you created on your own, either with marriage or child birth,
