SOC244H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Fictive Kinship, Nuclear Family, Single Parent
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Week 1- sept 12, chapter 1, pg 1-33. Socialization : the process whereby children learn how to think and behave according to the ways of the society and the group in which they are born and raised. They respond depending on their personalities, needs and experiences. So they can accept, reject and transform cultural messages. Institution: is a recognized area of social life that is organized along a system of widely accepted norms that regulate behaviours. Nuclear family: at least one parent, child living together: conjugal: husband, wife, kids. Fictive kinship: when friends that visit frequently become family uncles, aunts . Legal marriage: socially/legally/religiously sanctioned union, generally heterosexual, but could be same-sex: cohabitation: consensual union that is not legally sanctioned but is legally protected in. Analyses societies organization, structure and the linkages btwn various systems. Families are a unit that fulfill a child"s socialization. Societies provide cultural contexts that influence family life.
