SOC244H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Structural Functionalism, Talcott Parsons, Nuclear Family
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Chapter 1: definitions of the family change according to time and place. When the french and english arrived in canada, they encountered first. Nations groups with family structures quite different from those found in. The wendat families consisted of many people living together in a lawn house. The residents were often all descendants of the senior female. The legal family: senses family: a legal definition of the family used by statistics canada, family members also hard to find in a host of canadian laws and regulations. Child welfare laws define parents and specify which relatives are close enough to be allowed to adopted child without agency approval. Immigration law considers certain relatives close family members and thus to be given preference inn entering the country: legal definitions are not fixed; they"re change as a result of court cases and legislation.
