SOCI 371 Chapter Notes - Chapter all: Midlife Crisis, Emotional Intimacy, Voluntary Childlessness
17 Oct 2016
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Sociology is a systemic analysis of societies- social life, social change and the causes and consequences of human behaviors, and interactions. Sociologists study the dialectic relationships between social structures and individual agencies (how individuals effect society and how society effects individuals) Collective that live together/ around each other with same interests/ goals. Families evolving and becoming unique with the different forms / types of families this day in age (nuclear, extended, etc. ) The definition of (cid:498)families(cid:499) is always changing, and tends to be inconsistent and unpredictable, and not always effective. Today one will have a difficult time identifying a conventional definition of family accepted within and across academic research disciplines and formal or informal organizations. Text book examples: same sex couple with children, step families, transnational families, married couple living with parents. )ntimacy and care outside conventional (cid:498)family(cid:499) settings: ethan watters on (cid:498)urban tribes(cid:499, multiple cohabiting families.
