SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Talcott Parsons, George Herbert Mead, Symbolic Interactionism
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* learn to distinguish between good and bad parenting, and see how parenting influences a child"s characteristics. * find out how families cope differently with opportunities and crises. * see how families reproduce gender, race, ethnicity and class identities. * come to understand the different forms families can take and the ways family life" has changed overtime. * family you came from is likely different from other families that you know. > this is because families are highly variable. * all of families and the people in them have the same rights and are entitled to the same respect as the traditional family. *chapter is about the growth of diversity among families, and the different social processes we see in families of different types. > how families have different level of adaptability and cohesiveness. * we will also discuss different kinds of parenting, ranging from authoritarian through permissive styles.
