SOC 153 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Nuclear Family, Cultural Capital, Acting White

• School: Miami University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 153
• Professor: Harris Othello

Document Summary

Popenoe states that the family was deteriorated. Led to poverty, teen pregnancy, and substance abuse. Postmodern family is better prepared to meet new challenges. Family of orientation: family you are born into. Family of procreation: your own family you create. Civil unions: between marriage and domestic partnership. Functionalist view: family provides a number of necessary functions for the larger society. Conflict perspective: families are principle institutions in which men express dominance over females. Site of violence against women and children. Some argue it is traditional for women to nurture children and for men to provide for them. A contract : female fidelity vs. guaranteed paternity. Partible fatherhood: all men who have sex withthe woman throughout her pregnancy share paternity. New studies indicate that public schools are more segregated today than in the late. Brown v. board of education, 1954, banned racial segregation in schools. Gerrymandering: drawing district lines to purposely include some and exclude others.