FRHD 1020 Lecture 2: FRHD 1020.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Shayna Sparling

Document Summary

Definitions and context legal: related to family law, differs between province and territory legal definitions tend to change over time with new legislation definitions of families has broadned context : enforceable legislated laws legally interracial marriage had been legislatively approved much earlier than social approval was achieved, the inverse seems to be true for same sex marriage social constructions, social constructions of family gain power through it becoming the norm theoretical, uses concepts and proposition from social science theory ex. Marriage contains having a publically recognized sexual bond between two people : not correct of incorrect, only consistent with the concepts and propositions in a theory research, derived from a theory, from a social problem or from a hunch linked to measurement, research questions might also be generated from gaps in empirical knowledge or data, context: specific research questions.