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| A stable cluster of social structures that is organized to meet the basic needs of a society |
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1. Family
2. Religion
3. Education
4. Medicine
5. Economy
6. Politics/Gov't |
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| Which institutions are the oldest? |
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| Which institutions are the newest? |
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| Medicine, Education, and Gov't |
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| A relatively permanent group of people related by ancestry, marriage, or adoption, who live together, form an economic unit, and take care of their young. |
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| The Family as an Institution |
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| More than 2 generations of the same kinship line living in the same house or adjacent dwellings. |
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Pre-Industrial Societies
Extended Families |
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| Industrialization led to the transformation of the family: |
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-Geographic Mobility
-Social Mobility
-Loss of Family Functions
-Advantages of Smaller Families
-Individualism |
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| Parents and minor children living together but apart from others. |
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Industrial societies
Nuclear Families |
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| Post-Industrial Societies |
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-Extended Families
-Nuclear Families
-Single-Parent Families
-Cohabitation
-Serial Monogamy
-Reconstituted/Blended Families
-Childless couples or DINKS(duel income childless couples)
-Open Marriage
-Gay Couples and Gay Parent Families
-Remaining single
-Polygamy |
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-Emphasizes the family as an institution is universal and has vital functions:
Regulation of sexual behavior
replacement of members
socialization
care and protection
social placement
emotional support |
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Theoretical Perspectives on the Family
Structural Functionalist |
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-Emphasizes that the family is the principal institution in which the dominance of men over women has been expressed:
Patriachy
Marriage Vows
Wedding Ring
Ex-wife's name
inheritance laws
marital rape and spousal abuse laws
-Emphasizes the reality of domestic violence
-Spousal abuse
-child abuse
-elder abuse |
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Theoretical Perspectives on the Family
Social Conflict |
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Theoretical Perspectives on the Family
Social Conflict
Who benefits? |
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