[FRHD 1020] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (53 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Shayna Sparling

Document Summary

Shared by majority of people in a country or region. Proactive or action regarded as socially legitimate and approved. Sometimes legal definitions are out of synch with social norms: definitions of family have broadened, applied context: social norms in a society, research, derived from: Social problem: a hunch, must be measurable, applied context: research and theory development. Parents and their children living in the same house: extended family, all relatives that are close in proximity, all life together and share household duties, complex family. Step family: the adults have divorced and remarried, adoptive family. Children include grandchildren living with their grandparents(s) but with no parents present. Problem with household deffiniton: not all family members live in the same household. Families are not marriages of home or rules. Inclusive definitions: marriage and families seen as private, voluntary social groups or relationships, not social institutions, emphasize the importance of familial feeling or a family like sanction, represent our social reality or diversity.