SOCI 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Intimate Partner Violence, Married People, Artificial Insemination
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Chapter 15: families: socio-structural arrangements are tight in that they demand conformity to norms (ex. everything looking alike and everyone acting alike in a suburban neighbourhood). Some people are also referring to the traditional nuclear family, which is a nuclear family where the husband works outside the home for money and the wife works without pay in the home. Family forms vary across class, ethnic, religious, sexual orientation, etc. Functionalism and the nuclear ideal: functionalists think the nuclear family is ideally suited to create emotional stability and create people who will operate as productive adults, they believe the nuclear family serves 5 functions: It provides a basis for regular sexual activity. Emotional support: functionalists recognize other family types as well, just don"t think they are as suited to perform these functions, ex. He said the nuclear family is based on marriage: marriage is a socially approved, presumably long-term sexual and economic union between a man and a woman.