SOC 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Randall Collins, Nuclear Family, Anthony Giddens

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Jennifer Flad

Document Summary

Family, marriage, and intimate relationships: family = group of people who are related by descent, marriage, or adoption; two or more people residing in the same housing unit ; universal social institution that is central to social life. The assumption is that self-disclosure will strength a relationship because there are no secrets and therefore there will be no surprises, or at least there will be fewer of them, as the relationship develops. Broad changes in marriage and the family decline in marriage. In 1970, married couples constituted 70. 6% of all us households: nuclear family = consists of two adults and one or more children; has dropped from 40. 3% of all households in. 1970 to not quite 20% of all households in 2012: a great percentage of people have also never been married. Self-disclosing intimacy and pure relationships: anthony giddens offers an ambivalent view on the new individualized forms of marriage and of relationships more generally.