SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Heterosexism, Extended Family, Domestic Violence
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Families as relationships in which people live together with commitment, form an economic unit and care for any young, and consider their identity to be significantly attached to the group. Kinship: a social network of people based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption. Family of orientation: the family a person is born in and where early socialization takes place. Family of procreation: a family that a person forms by having children or adopting. Extended family: a family unit composed of relatives in addition to parents and children who live in the same household. Historically family is equated solely with nuclear family, which is one or two parents and their dependent children, all of which live apart from other relatives. Traditional nuclear family: family in which wife works without pay in home, while husband works outside of home for money (making him the primary provider)
