SOCIOL 2U06 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Female Genital Mutilation, Baker Publishing Group, Patrilineality
6 Oct 2016
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Academic research reveals that family practices vary considerably by individual experience, gender, and social class, stage in the family cycle, family size, residence, culture, and country. For an example, when we read cross- cultural studies about family life, we discover that some societies prefer arranged marriages, allow more than one spouse, offer men the best food, or practise female circumcision. It is easy to become moralistic and judgemental unless we understand that family life and even ideal relationships are influenced by our communities and the larger world around us, and are therefore transformed as the wider society changes. For decades, researchers have argued that definitions of family should be broadened to encompass caring and enduring intimate relationships regardless of legal or blood ties. Social historians have argued that nuclear families were always the most typical living arrangements both in europe and among the european settlers to.
