FRHD 1020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Nuclear Family, Social Exchange Theory, Conflict Theories

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Tuuli Kukkonen

Document Summary

Children in a census family includes grandchildren living with their grandparent(s), but with no parents present. United church of canada definition of family: persons who are joined together by reasons of mutual consent (marriage, social contract, or covenant) or by birth or adoption or placement. Nuclear family usually regarded as married parents and their children. Theory: provides a general framework of ideas that can be used to answer questions about the world. Example: for children, it could consist of expectations in a parent"s workplace or decisions made by the school board: macrosystem consists of a society"s ideology and culture. Example: most social policies are based on assumptions concerning relationships between the sexes, such as the division of labour between males and females both inside and outside the family. Macro theories principally study the values of society and the way those values affect family. Micro theories emphasize the relationships within individual families.