FRHD 1020 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Canada 2011 Census, Premarital Sex, Platonic Love
19 Dec 2016
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Shared by majority of people in a country or region. Practice or action regarded as socially legitimate and approved. Sometimes legal definitions are out of synch with social norms. *social constructions of family gain power when adherents of a perspective increase in number. Use concepts and propositions from a social science theory (concept is an abstract set of things or ideas collected under one idea) Not correct or incorrect, only consistent with the concepts and propositions in a theory. Context: concept and propositions of a theory. Derived from a theory, from a social problem or from a hunch (linked to measurement) Questions might also be generated from gaps in empirical knowledge or data. A social group characterized by: a common residence, economic co-operation or reproduction. Includes adults of both sexes, at least two, of whom maintain a socially approved sexual relationship, and one or more children, own or adopted, of sexually cohabiting adults.
