SOCA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Intimate Partner Violence, Randall Collins, Premarital Sex
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Is the family in decline? social-structural arrangements are tight to the degree they demand conformity to norms when people speak about the decline of the family, they are often referring to the nuclear family nuclear family. Consists of a cohabiting man and woman who maintain a socially approved sexual relationship and have at least one child. traditional nuclear family. Expands the nuclear family vertically by adding another generation one or more of the spouses" parents to the household. George murdock was a functionalist who conducted a famous study of 250 mainly preliterate, foraging societies in the 1940s moreover, the nuclear family, murdock continued, is everywhere based on marriage marriage. A socially approved, presumably long-term sexual and economic union between a man and a woman. It involves reciprocal rights and obligations between spouses and between parents and children. The number of marriages that occur in a year for every 1000 people in the population. divorce rate.
