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The Family Dynamic: Canadian Perspectives 7th Edition
Chapter 1
What is a Family?
• Sociologists definition: fulfils functions like reproduction, socialization of children, and sexual
regulation– biologically related or legal ties
• Social Institution: a structure of relationships that organizes social behavior around a central activity or
social need
• Household: person or group of persons who occupy the same dwelling
⟶ One or more families, single person, group of related or unrelated
•Communal Living: group of people, may or may not be related by birth or marriage, sharing financial
resourves and living arrangements
⟶ Community over individual family unit
• Census Family: a legal definition of the family used by statistics Canada
⟶ Cannot marry relatives too close
⟶ Grandparents and grandchildren (no parents)
⟶ Law states which relatives are close enough to adopt child w/o agency approval
⟶ Gov decides family for medical, benefits
⟶ Common law couples have same responsibilities as married couple in many provinces
⟶ 2005 same sex marriage legal in Canada
• Nuclear Family: a family consisting of a husband, wife, and their children
• Standard North American Family (SNAF): A term used to describe a family form based on a breadwinner-
father and homemaker- mother is raising children
⟶ Family of Orientation: the family that we are born into and raised in
⟶ Family of procreation: the family that we form through marriage or cohabitation, and in which we raise children
(some have more than one family – illegal or common law marriage)
• Extended Family: the nuclear family and all other relatives
• Kinship: set of social relations based on blood, marriage, and other social connections
• Heteronormative: a world view that presumes that heterosexuality is the normal or preferred sexual
orientation (bias)
• Intentional (or chosen) family or situational family: two or more individuals, not blood related or marriage, who
call themselves a family, may share residence, finances and lifestyle e.g. LGBTQ
Theories
• Macro: theoretical perspective that looks at the big picture and studies how the values of society affect family
• Micro: focuses on individuals or small groups and emphasized relationships within individual families
• Structural functionalist theory: social institution that has many functions in society
⟶ Sexual, economic, reproductive, and educational functions (Anthropologist George Murdock)
⟶ Further: socialization, social placement, emotional support, economic support, reproduction
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