SOC 001 Chapter 1: Soc T. Notes - Families_intimiate relationships

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Sociology (SOC)
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: Bellin

Document Summary

A group of individuals related to one another by blood ties, marriage or adoption, who form an economic unit the adult members of which are responsible for the upbringing of children. Family is a cultural universal, but we find myriad variants of it in practice, both within societies and between societies. Virtually all of us have a family that we know immediately and may help us to see our own lives as reflecting. Point: children do better in families with two present parents (popenoe) Counterpoint: alternative parenting models reflect the diversity of our society, and/or reflect new economic and emotional realities (stacey) Primarily, child well-being is a function of economic factors and the stresses imposed by parental conflict. These factors are correlated with the single-parent vs. two-parent. Cross-cultural variation distinction, but not very highly. In some societies, traditional family means extended-kin family; in many, it has come to mean nuclear family .