SOC 605 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Symbolic Interactionism, Nuclear Family, Middle Ages

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 605
• Professor: Kelly Train

Document Summary

Sociological theories of family: meaning of family: Late 1400s: term starts to emerge in the english, refers to anybody who has a common ancestor familia turns to family. Family: people who share a common ancestor through blood and legal ties. Fathers of sociology started as philosophers marx, durkhiem, weber: religion pre 1850 religion was the dominant discourse throughout the middle ages, argued family was god given, family was a heterosexual married coupling for the purposes of appropriation. Purpose of the family: economic unit- basis of survival, labour is divided. Burned at state if you questioned the family structure or the society, everything in society was god given, slavery was god given, used to keep everyone doing their job, destiny pre- intended by god: science 1850-1970s. Scientific inquiry starat late 1500s and 1700s- darwins notion of the origin of the species, solidifies the next philosophical basis to.