FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nuclear Family, Stepfamily

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

Document Summary

Love, caring, sharing, supporting, recognizing that diversity is important and a foundation of society. Normative definitions of family social things or norms (normal opinions shared by a culture or region: context: social norms in a society. Social constructions gain power when adherents of a perspective increase in number: increase and eventually change normative definitions. Theoretical definitions use concepts and propositions from a social science theory: for example, marriage is a publically recognized sexual bond between two people, limited in their scope, context: concepts and propositions of a theory. Research definitions derived from a theory, social problem, hunch. George murdock: a social group characterized by a common residence, economic co-operation, reproduction (one or more children, sexually active) A married couple with or without children of either or both spouses, common law couple, lone parent of any marital status. Household vs a family (feel more comfortable talking about household than family when doing censuses for research purposes)