Sociology 2235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Domestic Violence

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2235
• Professor: Gale Cassidy

Document Summary

In the future, sociologists will continue to watch the data and report whether trends are continuing in the same direction, stabilizing, or moving in a different direction. They will then make and test theories about the reasons for the trends. Social policies will be proposed and evaluated that will increase benefits to families and decrease harms. Public discussions will be held to discover how to promote favoured trends and slow down unfavourable ones. 1) changes will be welcomed or rejected depending on the individual s frame of. 2) family cannot be understood in isolation. Families continue to affect and be reference, the groups one identifies with, and their value orientations. affected by other economic, educational, religious, and political institutions.