SOCI 1P91 Families

nuclear family

autlt male, female and their offspring

extended fmaily

multiple generations of adults living with their spouses and children

family of orientation

family which one is born into

family of procreation

family one created by having or adopting children

Margrit Eichler

monolithic bias when we think of the term family

instrumental roles

responsible for engaging in paid labour outside of the home-male

expressive roles

responsible for emotional well-being of family member and socialization of children-females

social reproduction

necessary activities that guarantee the day-to-day reproduction and survival of the population

domestic labour

activities required to maintain a home and care for the people who live in it

role strain

stress that results when someone does not have sufficient resources to play a role or roles in

second shift

domestic labour performed by employed women at home after finishing their paid workdays

intimate femicide

killing of women by their intimate male partners

census family

married couple, a couple living common-law, lone parent of any marital status, with at leas one child living in the same dwelling. a couple may be opposite or same sex. ‘children’ includes grandchildren living with grandparents with no parents present.

economic family

group of 2 or more persons who live in the same dwelling and are related to each other by blood, marriage, common-law union, adoption or a foster relationship.

marriage

in canada in 2005 passed bill C-38 legalizing same-sex marriage

functionalist theory

• social institutions are understood to be interdependent and to exist in harmony with one another.

• family is a major social institution and social functions accomplished by families

• children in families are socialized to learn the values and norms of the larger society

talcott parsons

• industrialization led to functions associated with families becoming more specialized.

• specific roles for genders

• instrumental and expressive roles

conflict theory

• how people are situated in relation to the means of production and power shapes the experience of the world.

• look at the family’s relationship to the state

• inequalities in the larger society are perpetuated inside families and serve the ruling class

friedrich engels

during the industrial revolution families shifted from being organized around production to consumption. material conditions determine family life. womens positions declined

marxist feminist theory

Call attention to social reproduction families perform; all that goes into the daily and generational reproduction and survival of the population

symbolic interactionism

• Micro approach investigating how family members’ behaviours are shaped by their definitions and interpretations of particular situations. Context. Roles.

• Criticized for accepting the idea of families as sites of harmonious relationships. Family violence? Individual or structural

Goffman

Argued that people are like actors in the theatre, everyone plays roles in daily life.

feminist theory

• Families remain primary sites for the continued subordination of women

• Family forms are both time and place-specific. Socially mediated

• Familial ideology. Imposing one family model that privileges men and subordinates women through its very structure is a political and ideological exercise

• Challenge the ideology that the family is a “private” sphere. Social policies affect family life.

• Reject assertions that men’s and women’s roles within the families are a natural outcome of biological difference

post-structuralism

• . Seeks to dismantle prevailing discourses and assumptions about families

• Categories such as “good mother” or “good father” are saturated in power relations. They operate as normalizing discourses—they set the boundaries of what is acceptable and appropriate, and work to govern people’s behaviour. Examine relations of power

queer theory

• Question heteronormativity and biological essentialism. Question assumption that all families are formed through heterosexual unions

• Advocating for more expansive, inclusive conceptualizations of family