Sociology Application Paper
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Groups of related people bonded by connections that are biological, legal, or emotional
○
Socially constructed: we can’t by ourselves say we are a family with someone we need other people to tell us a well.
○
• Family: all persons or group of people who occupy a dwelling (Household) (US Definition)
Monogamy: the marriage of one man and one woman ○ Common law marriage: living together so long that you’re married ○
Polyandry: woman married to multiple men at the same time § Polygyny: man married to multiple women at the same time §
○ Polygamy: multiple marriages at one time
• Marriage
Emphasis on the emotional side of the definition of family §
○ Fictive kin: people other than legal or blood relatives who play family roles by providing for needs of other
• Family as
Defining Family
Exclude same sex marriage will never be a household ○
Exclusionists: most restrictive definition of family. Traditional= man, woman, with kids as well as traditional gender roles
If people functions as a family then they are one○ Focuses on function and not structure ○
Inclusionist: all- encompassing definition of family
Children and signaling commitment is fundamental ○
Subordinate individual interests to those groups ○ Value obligation to others over personal freedom○ CHINA ○
• Collectivist
Individual rights, self-realization, autonomy, personal identity take precedence over family obligations
○
United States, Canada, or Australia ○
• Individualist
Moderates: open to a more broad definition of family if the people in that group shows commitment.
Organized patterns of beliefs and behaviors centered on basic social needs○ Patterned ways of solving problems and meeting the needs of a particular society
○
Meeting the requires for society to be a society ○ Institutions: Building blocks to organized society ○ Ex: family, education, religion, economy, health care, law, politics, media ○
• Social institution
A social space in which relations between people in common positions are governed by accepted rules of interaction
○ • Institutional Arena
Institutional work/arena where people practice intimacy, childbearing, socialization, and caring work.
○ • Family arena
Family as Social Institution/Institutional Arena
Recent changes in family life are sign of the overall importance of family as a social institution is eroding
•
Ex: divorce, no more family dinners, gender roles are being broken down, same sex marriage.
○
Move from “traditional” family structures toward diverse types of households is problematic
•
The Family Decline Perspective (weak: because it misses the various definitions of family)
A set of statements or propositions that seek to explain or predict a particular aspect of social life.
○
Helps us predict and then we gather data to test those ○
• Theory
Aka: structural functionalism ○
Helps society as a whole function in such a way to maintain stability
§
Society is a giant organism and all of the organs and tissues fit together for one purpose and function
§
○ Key assumptions?
Parents: emotional and practical training for children to become adults in the real world
§
Families socialize children: learning values, attitudes, and proper behavior
§
Teaches values § Help control reproduction§ Provide emotional support where you can retreat from society for a break (a haven)
§
○ What are some functions that families play to keep society running smoothly?
The traditional nuclear family: different sex marriage with children and normal general roles
§ ○ What type of family form does this perspective favor?
This perspective was formed in the 1950s○ Does not help explain all families ○
• Consensus Perspective
Conflict and struggle are at the center of society § There are necessary for societal evolution § Looks at how society is put together and promotes the social inequality between people.
§
○ Key assumption?
Sibling favoritism § Gender: how parents parent boys vs girls § External: inequalities between families such as different opportunities
§
○ What are some examples of inequality within families? External to families?
• Conflict Perspective
Inequality is structure along gender lines § Men benefits more from family practices than females § Men's power is dominate § Men and women experience family life differently§
○ Key assumptions?
Women usually takes a hit on their work §
Sons and daughter? : treated differently □ § Women as the encourager and men as enforcer
○ How do women and men experience family differently?
You have to account for the roles that they may have such as taking not the best job but the one with more flexibility.
§
Not having as many promotions as males §
○ How might inequality within the family influence women's experiences in other institutional arenas?
• Contemporary theories- Feminism
All about cost and benefit§ Maximize reward and minimize cost § Views the individual as rational §
○ Key assumptions?
Consensus: because it is working together and views these relationships has mutually agreed upon.
§
Maintain control over most: conflict perspective §
○ Part of consensus or conflict perspective?
Love § Wisdom§ Support § Social net workings: becoming yours §
Energy □ Time □ Stress □ Money □ Sacrifices□
§ Cost?
○ What are rewards of family relationships? Costs? (These things are subjective. What's a cost for one person may not be a cost for another)
One may make more than the other § Both parents work but half of one parents income goes to the children
§
Sacrifices your significant other to become a better person §
○ How might an exchange theorist explain difference in the number of hours of housework performed by each spouse?
• Contemporary theories- Exchange
We can understand society by looking at the day to day interactions between people. As individuals, pairs, groups. And that society influences the symbols we use to communicate.
§
Families are created through everyday interaction.§ We interact through symbols and those symbols are given to use by society.
§
○ Key assumptions?
Family is not a physical actually thing is it symbolic. Something we agreed upon through interactions
§ ○ What does it mean that family is not an objective reality?
People can have different experiences with their relationships with one another
§ ○ How might members of the same family describe it differently?
• Contemporary theories- Symbolic Interaction
Theory of historical emergence of the individual as an actor in society and how individuality changes personal and institutional relations.
§ ○ Key assumptions?
Your needs and desires becomes important.§ Looks at how individual changes over time§
○ How has modernity and rise of individuality influences the diversity of family forms?
• Contemporary theories- Modernity(hour recording)
You will be required to use at least two of these theories when analyzing the media representation of the family
○
Use book and these notes as a starting point: search for additional sources in more depth
○
• Quick word about Application Paper
Broad perspectives
Sunday, November 13, 2016 4:27 PM
Groups of related people bonded by connections that are biological, legal, or emotional
○
Socially constructed: we can’t by ourselves say we are a family with someone we need other people to tell us a well.
○
• Family: all persons or group of people who occupy a dwelling (Household) (US Definition)
Monogamy: the marriage of one man and one woman ○ Common law marriage: living together so long that you’re married ○
Polyandry: woman married to multiple men at the same time § Polygyny: man married to multiple women at the same time §
○ Polygamy: multiple marriages at one time
• Marriage
Emphasis on the emotional side of the definition of family §
○ Fictive kin: people other than legal or blood relatives who play family roles by providing for needs of other
• Family as
Defining Family
Exclude same sex marriage will never be a household ○
Exclusionists: most restrictive definition of family. Traditional= man, woman, with kids as well as traditional gender roles
If people functions as a family then they are one○ Focuses on function and not structure ○
Inclusionist: all- encompassing definition of family
Children and signaling commitment is fundamental ○
Subordinate individual interests to those groups ○ Value obligation to others over personal freedom○ CHINA ○
• Collectivist
Individual rights, self-realization, autonomy, personal identity take precedence over family obligations
○
United States, Canada, or Australia ○
• Individualist
Moderates: open to a more broad definition of family if the people in that group shows commitment.
Organized patterns of beliefs and behaviors centered on basic social needs○ Patterned ways of solving problems and meeting the needs of a particular society
○
Meeting the requires for society to be a society ○ Institutions: Building blocks to organized society ○ Ex: family, education, religion, economy, health care, law, politics, media ○
• Social institution
A social space in which relations between people in common positions are governed by accepted rules of interaction
○ • Institutional Arena
Institutional work/arena where people practice intimacy, childbearing, socialization, and caring work.
○ • Family arena
Family as Social Institution/Institutional Arena
Recent changes in family life are sign of the overall importance of family as a social institution is eroding
•
Ex: divorce, no more family dinners, gender roles are being broken down, same sex marriage.
○
Move from “traditional” family structures toward diverse types of households is problematic
•
The Family Decline Perspective (weak: because it misses the various definitions of family)
A set of statements or propositions that seek to explain or predict a particular aspect of social life.
○
Helps us predict and then we gather data to test those ○
• Theory
Aka: structural functionalism ○
Helps society as a whole function in such a way to maintain stability
§
Society is a giant organism and all of the organs and tissues fit together for one purpose and function
§
○ Key assumptions?
Parents: emotional and practical training for children to become adults in the real world
§
Families socialize children: learning values, attitudes, and proper behavior
§
Teaches values § Help control reproduction§ Provide emotional support where you can retreat from society for a break (a haven)
§
○ What are some functions that families play to keep society running smoothly?
The traditional nuclear family: different sex marriage with children and normal general roles
§ ○ What type of family form does this perspective favor?
This perspective was formed in the 1950s○ Does not help explain all families ○
• Consensus Perspective
Conflict and struggle are at the center of society § There are necessary for societal evolution § Looks at how society is put together and promotes the social inequality between people.
§
○ Key assumption?
Sibling favoritism § Gender: how parents parent boys vs girls § External: inequalities between families such as different opportunities
§
○ What are some examples of inequality within families? External to families?
• Conflict Perspective
Inequality is structure along gender lines § Men benefits more from family practices than females § Men's power is dominate § Men and women experience family life differently§
○ Key assumptions?
Women usually takes a hit on their work §
Sons and daughter? : treated differently □ § Women as the encourager and men as enforcer
○ How do women and men experience family differently?
You have to account for the roles that they may have such as taking not the best job but the one with more flexibility.
§
Not having as many promotions as males §
○ How might inequality within the family influence women's experiences in other institutional arenas?
• Contemporary theories- Feminism
All about cost and benefit§ Maximize reward and minimize cost § Views the individual as rational §
○ Key assumptions?
Consensus: because it is working together and views these relationships has mutually agreed upon.
§
Maintain control over most: conflict perspective §
○ Part of consensus or conflict perspective?
Love § Wisdom§ Support § Social net workings: becoming yours §
Energy □ Time □ Stress □ Money □ Sacrifices□
§ Cost?
○ What are rewards of family relationships? Costs? (These things are subjective. What's a cost for one person may not be a cost for another)
One may make more than the other § Both parents work but half of one parents income goes to the children
§
Sacrifices your significant other to become a better person §
○ How might an exchange theorist explain difference in the number of hours of housework performed by each spouse?
• Contemporary theories- Exchange
We can understand society by looking at the day to day interactions between people. As individuals, pairs, groups. And that society influences the symbols we use to communicate.
§
Families are created through everyday interaction.§ We interact through symbols and those symbols are given to use by society.
§
○ Key assumptions?
Family is not a physical actually thing is it symbolic. Something we agreed upon through interactions
§ ○ What does it mean that family is not an objective reality?
People can have different experiences with their relationships with one another
§ ○ How might members of the same family describe it differently?
• Contemporary theories- Symbolic Interaction
Theory of historical emergence of the individual as an actor in society and how individuality changes personal and institutional relations.
§ ○ Key assumptions?
Your needs and desires becomes important.§ Looks at how individual changes over time§
○ How has modernity and rise of individuality influences the diversity of family forms?
• Contemporary theories- Modernity(hour recording)
You will be required to use at least two of these theories when analyzing the media representation of the family
○
Use book and these notes as a starting point: search for additional sources in more depth
○
• Quick word about Application Paper
Broad perspectives
Sunday, November 13, 2016 4:27 PM
Groups of related people bonded by connections that are biological, legal, or emotional
○
Socially constructed: we can’t by ourselves say we are a family with someone we need other people to tell us a well.
○
• Family: all persons or group of people who occupy a dwelling (Household) (US Definition)
Monogamy: the marriage of one man and one woman ○ Common law marriage: living together so long that you’re married ○
Polyandry: woman married to multiple men at the same time § Polygyny: man married to multiple women at the same time §
○ Polygamy: multiple marriages at one time
• Marriage
Emphasis on the emotional side of the definition of family §
○ Fictive kin: people other than legal or blood relatives who play family roles by providing for needs of other
• Family as
Defining Family
Exclude same sex marriage will never be a household ○
Exclusionists: most restrictive definition of family. Traditional= man, woman, with kids as well as traditional gender roles
If people functions as a family then they are one○ Focuses on function and not structure ○
Inclusionist: all- encompassing definition of family
Children and signaling commitment is fundamental ○
Subordinate individual interests to those groups ○ Value obligation to others over personal freedom○ CHINA ○
• Collectivist
Individual rights, self-realization, autonomy, personal identity take precedence over family obligations
○
United States, Canada, or Australia ○
• Individualist
Moderates: open to a more broad definition of family if the people in that group shows commitment.
Organized patterns of beliefs and behaviors centered on basic social needs○ Patterned ways of solving problems and meeting the needs of a particular society
○
Meeting the requires for society to be a society ○ Institutions: Building blocks to organized society ○ Ex: family, education, religion, economy, health care, law, politics, media ○
• Social institution
A social space in which relations between people in common positions are governed by accepted rules of interaction
○ • Institutional Arena
Institutional work/arena where people practice intimacy, childbearing, socialization, and caring work.
○ • Family arena
Family as Social Institution/Institutional Arena
Recent changes in family life are sign of the overall importance of family as a social institution is eroding
•
Ex: divorce, no more family dinners, gender roles are being broken down, same sex marriage.
○
Move from “traditional” family structures toward diverse types of households is problematic
•
The Family Decline Perspective (weak: because it misses the various definitions of family)
A set of statements or propositions that seek to explain or predict a particular aspect of social life.
○
Helps us predict and then we gather data to test those ○
• Theory
Aka: structural functionalism ○
Helps society as a whole function in such a way to maintain stability
§
Society is a giant organism and all of the organs and tissues fit together for one purpose and function
§
○ Key assumptions?
Parents: emotional and practical training for children to become adults in the real world
§
Families socialize children: learning values, attitudes, and proper behavior
§
Teaches values § Help control reproduction§ Provide emotional support where you can retreat from society for a break (a haven)
§
○ What are some functions that families play to keep society running smoothly?
The traditional nuclear family: different sex marriage with children and normal general roles
§ ○ What type of family form does this perspective favor?
This perspective was formed in the 1950s○ Does not help explain all families ○
• Consensus Perspective
Conflict and struggle are at the center of society § There are necessary for societal evolution § Looks at how society is put together and promotes the social inequality between people.
§
○ Key assumption?
Sibling favoritism § Gender: how parents parent boys vs girls § External: inequalities between families such as different opportunities
§
○ What are some examples of inequality within families? External to families?
• Conflict Perspective
Inequality is structure along gender lines § Men benefits more from family practices than females § Men's power is dominate § Men and women experience family life differently§
○ Key assumptions?
Women usually takes a hit on their work §
Sons and daughter? : treated differently □ § Women as the encourager and men as enforcer
○ How do women and men experience family differently?
You have to account for the roles that they may have such as taking not the best job but the one with more flexibility.
§
Not having as many promotions as males §
○ How might inequality within the family influence women's experiences in other institutional arenas?
• Contemporary theories- Feminism
All about cost and benefit§ Maximize reward and minimize cost § Views the individual as rational §
○ Key assumptions?
Consensus: because it is working together and views these relationships has mutually agreed upon.
§
Maintain control over most: conflict perspective §
○ Part of consensus or conflict perspective?
Love § Wisdom§ Support § Social net workings: becoming yours §
Energy □ Time □ Stress □ Money □ Sacrifices□
§ Cost?
○ What are rewards of family relationships? Costs? (These things are subjective. What's a cost for one person may not be a cost for another)
One may make more than the other § Both parents work but half of one parents income goes to the children
§
Sacrifices your significant other to become a better person §
○ How might an exchange theorist explain difference in the number of hours of housework performed by each spouse?
• Contemporary theories- Exchange
We can understand society by looking at the day to day interactions between people. As individuals, pairs, groups. And that society influences the symbols we use to communicate.
§
Families are created through everyday interaction.§ We interact through symbols and those symbols are given to use by society.
§
○ Key assumptions?
Family is not a physical actually thing is it symbolic. Something we agreed upon through interactions
§ ○ What does it mean that family is not an objective reality?
People can have different experiences with their relationships with one another
§ ○ How might members of the same family describe it differently?
• Contemporary theories- Symbolic Interaction
Theory of historical emergence of the individual as an actor in society and how individuality changes personal and institutional relations.
§ ○ Key assumptions?
Your needs and desires becomes important.§ Looks at how individual changes over time§
○ How has modernity and rise of individuality influences the diversity of family forms?
• Contemporary theories- Modernity(hour recording)
You will be required to use at least two of these theories when analyzing the media representation of the family
○
Use book and these notes as a starting point: search for additional sources in more depth
○
• Quick word about Application Paper
Broad perspectives
Sunday, November 13, 2016 4:27 PM
Groups of related people bonded by connections that are biological, legal, or emotional
○
Socially constructed: we can’t by ourselves say we are a family with someone we need other people to tell us a well.
○
• Family: all persons or group of people who occupy a dwelling (Household) (US Definition)
Monogamy: the marriage of one man and one woman ○ Common law marriage: living together so long that you’re married ○
Polyandry: woman married to multiple men at the same time § Polygyny: man married to multiple women at the same time §
○ Polygamy: multiple marriages at one time
• Marriage
Emphasis on the emotional side of the definition of family §
○ Fictive kin: people other than legal or blood relatives who play family roles by providing for needs of other
• Family as
Defining Family
Exclude same sex marriage will never be a household ○
Exclusionists: most restrictive definition of family. Traditional= man, woman, with kids as well as traditional gender roles
If people functions as a family then they are one○ Focuses on function and not structure ○
Inclusionist: all- encompassing definition of family
Children and signaling commitment is fundamental ○
Subordinate individual interests to those groups ○ Value obligation to others over personal freedom○ CHINA ○
• Collectivist
Individual rights, self-realization, autonomy, personal identity take precedence over family obligations
○
United States, Canada, or Australia ○
• Individualist
Moderates: open to a more broad definition of family if the people in that group shows commitment.
Organized patterns of beliefs and behaviors centered on basic social needs○ Patterned ways of solving problems and meeting the needs of a particular society
○
Meeting the requires for society to be a society ○ Institutions: Building blocks to organized society ○ Ex: family, education, religion, economy, health care, law, politics, media ○
• Social institution
A social space in which relations between people in common positions are governed by accepted rules of interaction
○ • Institutional Arena
Institutional work/arena where people practice intimacy, childbearing, socialization, and caring work.
○ • Family arena
Family as Social Institution/Institutional Arena
Recent changes in family life are sign of the overall importance of family as a social institution is eroding
•
Ex: divorce, no more family dinners, gender roles are being broken down, same sex marriage.
○
Move from “traditional” family structures toward diverse types of households is problematic
•
The Family Decline Perspective (weak: because it misses the various definitions of family)
A set of statements or propositions that seek to explain or predict a particular aspect of social life.
○
Helps us predict and then we gather data to test those ○
• Theory
Aka: structural functionalism ○
Helps society as a whole function in such a way to maintain stability
§
Society is a giant organism and all of the organs and tissues fit together for one purpose and function
§
○ Key assumptions?
Parents: emotional and practical training for children to become adults in the real world
§
Families socialize children: learning values, attitudes, and proper behavior
§
Teaches values § Help control reproduction§ Provide emotional support where you can retreat from society for a break (a haven)
§
○ What are some functions that families play to keep society running smoothly?
The traditional nuclear family: different sex marriage with children and normal general roles
§ ○ What type of family form does this perspective favor?
This perspective was formed in the 1950s○ Does not help explain all families ○
• Consensus Perspective
Conflict and struggle are at the center of society § There are necessary for societal evolution § Looks at how society is put together and promotes the social inequality between people.
§
○ Key assumption?
Sibling favoritism § Gender: how parents parent boys vs girls § External: inequalities between families such as different opportunities
§
○ What are some examples of inequality within families? External to families?
• Conflict Perspective
Inequality is structure along gender lines § Men benefits more from family practices than females § Men's power is dominate § Men and women experience family life differently§
○ Key assumptions?
Women usually takes a hit on their work §
Sons and daughter? : treated differently □ § Women as the encourager and men as enforcer
○ How do women and men experience family differently?
You have to account for the roles that they may have such as taking not the best job but the one with more flexibility.
§
Not having as many promotions as males §
○ How might inequality within the family influence women's experiences in other institutional arenas?
• Contemporary theories- Feminism
All about cost and benefit§ Maximize reward and minimize cost § Views the individual as rational §
○ Key assumptions?
Consensus: because it is working together and views these relationships has mutually agreed upon.
§
Maintain control over most: conflict perspective §
○ Part of consensus or conflict perspective?
Love § Wisdom§ Support § Social net workings: becoming yours §
Energy □ Time □ Stress □ Money □ Sacrifices□
§ Cost?
○ What are rewards of family relationships? Costs? (These things are subjective. What's a cost for one person may not be a cost for another)
One may make more than the other § Both parents work but half of one parents income goes to the children
§
Sacrifices your significant other to become a better person §
○ How might an exchange theorist explain difference in the number of hours of housework performed by each spouse?
• Contemporary theories- Exchange
We can understand society by looking at the day to day interactions between people. As individuals, pairs, groups. And that society influences the symbols we use to communicate.
§
Families are created through everyday interaction.§ We interact through symbols and those symbols are given to use by society.
§
○ Key assumptions?
Family is not a physical actually thing is it symbolic. Something we agreed upon through interactions
§ ○ What does it mean that family is not an objective reality?
People can have different experiences with their relationships with one another
§ ○ How might members of the same family describe it differently?
• Contemporary theories- Symbolic Interaction
Theory of historical emergence of the individual as an actor in society and how individuality changes personal and institutional relations.
§ ○ Key assumptions?
Your needs and desires becomes important.§ Looks at how individual changes over time§
○ How has modernity and rise of individuality influences the diversity of family forms?
• Contemporary theories- Modernity(hour recording)
You will be required to use at least two of these theories when analyzing the media representation of the family
○
Use book and these notes as a starting point: search for additional sources in more depth
○
• Quick word about Application Paper
Broad perspectives
Sunday, November 13, 2016 4:27 PM
Groups of related people bonded by connections that are biological, legal, or emotional
○
Socially constructed: we can’t by ourselves say we are a family with someone we need other people to tell us a well.
○
• Family: all persons or group of people who occupy a dwelling (Household) (US Definition)
Monogamy: the marriage of one man and one woman ○ Common law marriage: living together so long that you’re married ○
Polyandry: woman married to multiple men at the same time § Polygyny: man married to multiple women at the same time §
○ Polygamy: multiple marriages at one time
• Marriage
Emphasis on the emotional side of the definition of family §
○ Fictive kin: people other than legal or blood relatives who play family roles by providing for needs of other
• Family as
Defining Family
Exclude same sex marriage will never be a household ○
Exclusionists: most restrictive definition of family. Traditional= man, woman, with kids as well as traditional gender roles
If people functions as a family then they are one○ Focuses on function and not structure ○
Inclusionist: all- encompassing definition of family
Children and signaling commitment is fundamental ○
Subordinate individual interests to those groups ○ Value obligation to others over personal freedom○ CHINA ○
• Collectivist
Individual rights, self-realization, autonomy, personal identity take precedence over family obligations
○
United States, Canada, or Australia ○
• Individualist
Moderates: open to a more broad definition of family if the people in that group shows commitment.
Organized patterns of beliefs and behaviors centered on basic social needs○ Patterned ways of solving problems and meeting the needs of a particular society
○
Meeting the requires for society to be a society ○ Institutions: Building blocks to organized society ○ Ex: family, education, religion, economy, health care, law, politics, media ○
• Social institution
A social space in which relations between people in common positions are governed by accepted rules of interaction
○ • Institutional Arena
Institutional work/arena where people practice intimacy, childbearing, socialization, and caring work.
○ • Family arena
Family as Social Institution/Institutional Arena
Recent changes in family life are sign of the overall importance of family as a social institution is eroding
•
Ex: divorce, no more family dinners, gender roles are being broken down, same sex marriage.
○
Move from “traditional” family structures toward diverse types of households is problematic
•
The Family Decline Perspective (weak: because it misses the various definitions of family)
A set of statements or propositions that seek to explain or predict a particular aspect of social life.
○
Helps us predict and then we gather data to test those ○
• Theory
Aka: structural functionalism ○
Helps society as a whole function in such a way to maintain stability
§
Society is a giant organism and all of the organs and tissues fit together for one purpose and function
§
○ Key assumptions?
Parents: emotional and practical training for children to become adults in the real world
§
Families socialize children: learning values, attitudes, and proper behavior
§
Teaches values § Help control reproduction§ Provide emotional support where you can retreat from society for a break (a haven)
§
○ What are some functions that families play to keep society running smoothly?
The traditional nuclear family: different sex marriage with children and normal general roles
§ ○ What type of family form does this perspective favor?
This perspective was formed in the 1950s○ Does not help explain all families ○
• Consensus Perspective
Conflict and struggle are at the center of society § There are necessary for societal evolution § Looks at how society is put together and promotes the social inequality between people.
§
○ Key assumption?
Sibling favoritism § Gender: how parents parent boys vs girls § External: inequalities between families such as different opportunities
§
○ What are some examples of inequality within families? External to families?
• Conflict Perspective
Inequality is structure along gender lines § Men benefits more from family practices than females § Men's power is dominate § Men and women experience family life differently§
○ Key assumptions?
Women usually takes a hit on their work §
Sons and daughter? : treated differently □ § Women as the encourager and men as enforcer
○ How do women and men experience family differently?
You have to account for the roles that they may have such as taking not the best job but the one with more flexibility.
§
Not having as many promotions as males §
○ How might inequality within the family influence women's experiences in other institutional arenas?
• Contemporary theories- Feminism
All about cost and benefit§ Maximize reward and minimize cost § Views the individual as rational §
○ Key assumptions?
Consensus: because it is working together and views these relationships has mutually agreed upon.
§
Maintain control over most: conflict perspective §
○ Part of consensus or conflict perspective?
Love § Wisdom§ Support § Social net workings: becoming yours §
Energy □ Time □ Stress □ Money □ Sacrifices□
§ Cost?
○ What are rewards of family relationships? Costs? (These things are subjective. What's a cost for one person may not be a cost for another)
One may make more than the other § Both parents work but half of one parents income goes to the children
§
Sacrifices your significant other to become a better person §
○ How might an exchange theorist explain difference in the number of hours of housework performed by each spouse?
• Contemporary theories- Exchange
We can understand society by looking at the day to day interactions between people. As individuals, pairs, groups. And that society influences the symbols we use to communicate.
§
Families are created through everyday interaction.§ We interact through symbols and those symbols are given to use by society.
§
○ Key assumptions?
Family is not a physical actually thing is it symbolic. Something we agreed upon through interactions
§ ○ What does it mean that family is not an objective reality?
People can have different experiences with their relationships with one another
§ ○ How might members of the same family describe it differently?
• Contemporary theories- Symbolic Interaction
Theory of historical emergence of the individual as an actor in society and how individuality changes personal and institutional relations.
§ ○ Key assumptions?
Your needs and desires becomes important.§ Looks at how individual changes over time§
○ How has modernity and rise of individuality influences the diversity of family forms?
• Contemporary theories- Modernity(hour recording)
You will be required to use at least two of these theories when analyzing the media representation of the family
○
Use book and these notes as a starting point: search for additional sources in more depth
○
• Quick word about Application Paper
Broad perspectives
Sunday, November 13, 2016 4:27 PM
Groups of related people bonded by connections that are biological, legal, or emotional
○
Socially constructed: we can’t by ourselves say we are a family with someone we need other people to tell us a well.
○
• Family: all persons or group of people who occupy a dwelling (Household) (US Definition)
Monogamy: the marriage of one man and one woman ○ Common law marriage: living together so long that you’re married ○
Polyandry: woman married to multiple men at the same time § Polygyny: man married to multiple women at the same time §
○ Polygamy: multiple marriages at one time
• Marriage
Emphasis on the emotional side of the definition of family §
○ Fictive kin: people other than legal or blood relatives who play family roles by providing for needs of other
• Family as
Defining Family
Exclude same sex marriage will never be a household ○
Exclusionists: most restrictive definition of family. Traditional= man, woman, with kids as well as traditional gender roles
If people functions as a family then they are one○ Focuses on function and not structure ○
Inclusionist: all- encompassing definition of family
Children and signaling commitment is fundamental ○
Subordinate individual interests to those groups ○ Value obligation to others over personal freedom○ CHINA ○
• Collectivist
Individual rights, self-realization, autonomy, personal identity take precedence over family obligations
○
United States, Canada, or Australia ○
• Individualist
Moderates: open to a more broad definition of family if the people in that group shows commitment.
Organized patterns of beliefs and behaviors centered on basic social needs○ Patterned ways of solving problems and meeting the needs of a particular society
○
Meeting the requires for society to be a society ○ Institutions: Building blocks to organized society ○ Ex: family, education, religion, economy, health care, law, politics, media ○
• Social institution
A social space in which relations between people in common positions are governed by accepted rules of interaction
○ • Institutional Arena
Institutional work/arena where people practice intimacy, childbearing, socialization, and caring work.
○ • Family arena
Family as Social Institution/Institutional Arena
Recent changes in family life are sign of the overall importance of family as a social institution is eroding
•
Ex: divorce, no more family dinners, gender roles are being broken down, same sex marriage.
○
Move from “traditional” family structures toward diverse types of households is problematic
•
The Family Decline Perspective (weak: because it misses the various definitions of family)
A set of statements or propositions that seek to explain or predict a particular aspect of social life.
○
Helps us predict and then we gather data to test those ○
• Theory
Aka: structural functionalism ○
Helps society as a whole function in such a way to maintain stability
§
Society is a giant organism and all of the organs and tissues fit together for one purpose and function
§
○ Key assumptions?
Parents: emotional and practical training for children to become adults in the real world
§
Families socialize children: learning values, attitudes, and proper behavior
§
Teaches values § Help control reproduction§ Provide emotional support where you can retreat from society for a break (a haven)
§
○ What are some functions that families play to keep society running smoothly?
The traditional nuclear family: different sex marriage with children and normal general roles
§ ○ What type of family form does this perspective favor?
This perspective was formed in the 1950s○ Does not help explain all families ○
• Consensus Perspective
Conflict and struggle are at the center of society § There are necessary for societal evolution § Looks at how society is put together and promotes the social inequality between people.
§
○ Key assumption?
Sibling favoritism § Gender: how parents parent boys vs girls § External: inequalities between families such as different opportunities
§
○ What are some examples of inequality within families? External to families?
• Conflict Perspective
Inequality is structure along gender lines § Men benefits more from family practices than females § Men's power is dominate § Men and women experience family life differently§
○ Key assumptions?
Women usually takes a hit on their work §
Sons and daughter? : treated differently □ § Women as the encourager and men as enforcer
○ How do women and men experience family differently?
You have to account for the roles that they may have such as taking not the best job but the one with more flexibility.
§
Not having as many promotions as males §
○ How might inequality within the family influence women's experiences in other institutional arenas?
• Contemporary theories- Feminism
All about cost and benefit§ Maximize reward and minimize cost § Views the individual as rational §
○ Key assumptions?
Consensus: because it is working together and views these relationships has mutually agreed upon.
§
Maintain control over most: conflict perspective §
○ Part of consensus or conflict perspective?
Love § Wisdom§ Support § Social net workings: becoming yours §
Energy □ Time □ Stress □ Money □ Sacrifices□
§ Cost?
○ What are rewards of family relationships? Costs? (These things are subjective. What's a cost for one person may not be a cost for another)
One may make more than the other § Both parents work but half of one parents income goes to the children
§
Sacrifices your significant other to become a better person §
○ How might an exchange theorist explain difference in the number of hours of housework performed by each spouse?
• Contemporary theories- Exchange
We can understand society by looking at the day to day interactions between people. As individuals, pairs, groups. And that society influences the symbols we use to communicate.
§
Families are created through everyday interaction.§ We interact through symbols and those symbols are given to use by society.
§
○ Key assumptions?
Family is not a physical actually thing is it symbolic. Something we agreed upon through interactions
§ ○ What does it mean that family is not an objective reality?
People can have different experiences with their relationships with one another
§ ○ How might members of the same family describe it differently?
• Contemporary theories- Symbolic Interaction
Theory of historical emergence of the individual as an actor in society and how individuality changes personal and institutional relations.
§ ○ Key assumptions?
Your needs and desires becomes important.§ Looks at how individual changes over time§
○ How has modernity and rise of individuality influences the diversity of family forms?
• Contemporary theories- Modernity(hour recording)
You will be required to use at least two of these theories when analyzing the media representation of the family
○
Use book and these notes as a starting point: search for additional sources in more depth
○
• Quick word about Application Paper
Broad perspectives
Sunday, November 13, 2016 4:27 PM
Groups of related people bonded by connections that are biological, legal, or emotional
○
Socially constructed: we can’t by ourselves say we are a family with someone we need other people to tell us a well.
○
• Family: all persons or group of people who occupy a dwelling (Household) (US Definition)
Monogamy: the marriage of one man and one woman ○ Common law marriage: living together so long that you’re married ○
Polyandry: woman married to multiple men at the same time § Polygyny: man married to multiple women at the same time §
○ Polygamy: multiple marriages at one time
• Marriage
Emphasis on the emotional side of the definition of family §
○ Fictive kin: people other than legal or blood relatives who play family roles by providing for needs of other
• Family as
Defining Family
Exclude same sex marriage will never be a household ○
Exclusionists: most restrictive definition of family. Traditional= man, woman, with kids as well as traditional gender roles
If people functions as a family then they are one○ Focuses on function and not structure ○
Inclusionist: all- encompassing definition of family
Children and signaling commitment is fundamental ○
Subordinate individual interests to those groups ○ Value obligation to others over personal freedom○ CHINA ○
• Collectivist
Individual rights, self-realization, autonomy, personal identity take precedence over family obligations
○
United States, Canada, or Australia ○
• Individualist
Moderates: open to a more broad definition of family if the people in that group shows commitment.
Organized patterns of beliefs and behaviors centered on basic social needs○ Patterned ways of solving problems and meeting the needs of a particular society
○
Meeting the requires for society to be a society ○ Institutions: Building blocks to organized society ○ Ex: family, education, religion, economy, health care, law, politics, media ○
• Social institution
A social space in which relations between people in common positions are governed by accepted rules of interaction
○ • Institutional Arena
Institutional work/arena where people practice intimacy, childbearing, socialization, and caring work.
○ • Family arena
Family as Social Institution/Institutional Arena
Recent changes in family life are sign of the overall importance of family as a social institution is eroding
•
Ex: divorce, no more family dinners, gender roles are being broken down, same sex marriage.
○
Move from “traditional” family structures toward diverse types of households is problematic
•
The Family Decline Perspective (weak: because it misses the various definitions of family)
A set of statements or propositions that seek to explain or predict a particular aspect of social life.
○
Helps us predict and then we gather data to test those ○
• Theory
Aka: structural functionalism ○
Helps society as a whole function in such a way to maintain stability
§
Society is a giant organism and all of the organs and tissues fit together for one purpose and function
§
○ Key assumptions?
Parents: emotional and practical training for children to become adults in the real world
§
Families socialize children: learning values, attitudes, and proper behavior
§
Teaches values § Help control reproduction§ Provide emotional support where you can retreat from society for a break (a haven)
§
○ What are some functions that families play to keep society running smoothly?
The traditional nuclear family: different sex marriage with children and normal general roles
§ ○ What type of family form does this perspective favor?
This perspective was formed in the 1950s○ Does not help explain all families ○
• Consensus Perspective
Conflict and struggle are at the center of society § There are necessary for societal evolution § Looks at how society is put together and promotes the social inequality between people.
§
○ Key assumption?
Sibling favoritism § Gender: how parents parent boys vs girls § External: inequalities between families such as different opportunities
§
○ What are some examples of inequality within families? External to families?
• Conflict Perspective
Inequality is structure along gender lines § Men benefits more from family practices than females § Men's power is dominate § Men and women experience family life differently§
○ Key assumptions?
Women usually takes a hit on their work §
Sons and daughter? : treated differently □ § Women as the encourager and men as enforcer
○ How do women and men experience family differently?
You have to account for the roles that they may have such as taking not the best job but the one with more flexibility.
§
Not having as many promotions as males §
○ How might inequality within the family influence women's experiences in other institutional arenas?
• Contemporary theories- Feminism
All about cost and benefit§ Maximize reward and minimize cost § Views the individual as rational §
○ Key assumptions?
Consensus: because it is working together and views these relationships has mutually agreed upon.
§
Maintain control over most: conflict perspective §
○ Part of consensus or conflict perspective?
Love § Wisdom§ Support § Social net workings: becoming yours §
Energy □ Time □ Stress □ Money □ Sacrifices□
§ Cost?
○ What are rewards of family relationships? Costs? (These things are subjective. What's a cost for one person may not be a cost for another)
One may make more than the other § Both parents work but half of one parents income goes to the children
§
Sacrifices your significant other to become a better person §
○ How might an exchange theorist explain difference in the number of hours of housework performed by each spouse?
• Contemporary theories- Exchange
We can understand society by looking at the day to day interactions between people. As individuals, pairs, groups. And that society influences the symbols we use to communicate.
§
Families are created through everyday interaction.§ We interact through symbols and those symbols are given to use by society.
§
○ Key assumptions?
Family is not a physical actually thing is it symbolic. Something we agreed upon through interactions
§ ○ What does it mean that family is not an objective reality?
People can have different experiences with their relationships with one another
§ ○ How might members of the same family describe it differently?
• Contemporary theories- Symbolic Interaction
Theory of historical emergence of the individual as an actor in society and how individuality changes personal and institutional relations.
§ ○ Key assumptions?
Your needs and desires becomes important.§ Looks at how individual changes over time§
○ How has modernity and rise of individuality influences the diversity of family forms?
• Contemporary theories- Modernity(hour recording)
You will be required to use at least two of these theories when analyzing the media representation of the family
○
Use book and these notes as a starting point: search for additional sources in more depth
○
• Quick word about Application Paper
Broad perspectives
Sunday, November 13, 2016 4:27 PM
