PSYCH 3AB3 Chapter 4: Topic 7 - Family
8 Dec 2015
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As economic units, families work together to produce and consume. As social units, they promote the survival, comfort, and mutual support of their members. As generational units, they provide a way to accumulate the skills and knowledge of older people and ensure that these skills are passed along to those who are younger. As structural units, they link people to one another and to the. As central units (most important), they bear, care for, raise, and broader community train children. Socialization the process through which children acquire the attitudes, beliefs, behaviours, and skills that their parents and culture consider appropriate. This can create a sense of insecurity in both the parents and the teen: phase transition a period of change in family system during which minor events may have far-reaching consequences. While children are still young, the functions of the family unit are straightforward family provides food, shelter, clothing, etc.
