SOCL 2001 Chapter : Ch 7 NOTES
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7: family, the traditional family (mother, father, biological child) Nuclear family (the central or ideal family) Roll of a family: support each other, provide food and protection: extended family- family outside of the nuclear family. Grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins: polygyny- multiple wives, polyandry- multiple husbands, functionalism in the family, nuclear family is the centerpiece of a functionalist perspective on family. This was all you need: mom- maintains the house, dad- brings home the bacon, baby- is there to keep the family going (give mom and. Dad a reason to keep doing what they do) The traditional family did exist, but it was not the only family: putting tradition in perspective, traditional families are products of the 50"s, baby boom. Birth of tv: family is not static, pre-industrial families, kinship networks- extended families that work at home. All worked together to provide food, clothes, upkeep.
