FRHD 1020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Symbolic Interactionism, Nuclear Family, Talcott Parsons
15 Aug 2017
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Week 1: chapter 1 what is a. 2: families are expected to socialize children to meet certain standards of behaviour. Evaluation of conflict theory: explains why families and societies change as a result of shifts in the balance of power, also reveals how the interactions between families and other social institutions are not always harmonious. 4: conflict theory is not strong in demonstrating how families contribute to society as a whole, neither is it good at explaining why society"s norms and values for families tend to change slowly. The family as a system: the systems approach to the family also looks at how individual members interact, but views this interaction as a system, system a set of interrelated and interacting parts. Fair trade within the family: according to exchange theory, much of family life can be viewed in terms of costs and benefits.
