nuclear family

Examples of nuclear family in the following topics:

• Family Structures

  • However, this two-parent, nuclear family has become less prevalent, and alternative family forms have become more common.
  • Those generations, the extended family of aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cousins, can all hold significant emotional and economic roles for the nuclear family.
  • The nuclear family is considered the "traditional" family and consists of a mother, father, and the children.
  • The nuclear family is also choosing to have fewer children than in the past.
  • In some circumstances, the extended family comes to live either with or in place of a member of the nuclear family.

• The Functionalist Perspective

  • Functionalists view the family unit as a construct that fulfills important functions and keeps society running smoothly.
  • For functionalists, the family creates well-integrated members of society and teaches culture to the new members of society.
  • Structural functionalism also took on the argument that the basic building block of society is the nuclear family, and that the clan is an outgrowth, not vice versa .
  • Structural functionalism also took on the argument that the basic building block of society is the nuclear family, and that the clan is an outgrowth, not vice versa.
  • Explain the social functions of the family through the perspective of structural functionalism

• Gender Roles in the U.S.

  • One main thread in discussions about gender roles in the United States has been the historical evolution from a single-income family, or a family unit in which one spouse (typically the father) is responsible for the family income, to a dual-income family, or a family unit in which both spouses generate income.
  • In 1955, sociologist Talcott Parsons developed a model of nuclear families in the United States that addressed gender roles.
  • Family structures vary across cultures and history, and the term nuclear family refers to a family unit of two parents and their children.
  • Parsons developed two models of gender roles within the nuclear family.
  • The national trend toward a total integration of gender roles is reflected in women's education, professional achievement, and family income contributions.

• The Nature of a Family

  • In sociological literature, the most common form of this family is often referred to as a nuclear family.
  • A "matrilocal" family consists of a mother and her children.
  • Common in the western societies, the model of the family triangle, where the husband, wife, and children are isolated from the outside, is also called the oedipal model of the family.
  • This family arrangement is considered patriarchal.
  • As a unit of socialization, the family is the object of analysis for sociologists of the family.

• Replacing Family Functions

  • Family types that are replacing the traditional nuclear family include single parent families, cohabitation, and gay and lesbian families.
  • The sociology of the family examines the family as an institution and a unit of socialization.
  • Sociological studies of the family look at demographic characteristic of the family members: family size, age, ethnicity and gender of its members, social class of the family, the economic level and mobility of the family, professions of its members, and the education levels of the family members.
  • There are various other family forms that are becoming increasingly common.
  • Examine the different types of families and the changing face of family roles

• What is a family?

  • Why do families exist?
  • This notion of parents and children as family is called a nuclear family and is a recent invention of the Western World that has (in some cases) been sold as a form of "tradition. " It is a social construct that does not necessarily reflect the reality of family life for many people.
  • In fact, with recent developments in the U.S., the nuclear family is no longer the primary form of social life in the U.S.
  • Further, historical research suggests the nuclear family has never been the statistical or numeric norm in the United States.
  • The nuclear family emerged during the late medieval period and was formalized during the Council of Trent, in which marriage was defined as, "The conjugal union of man and woman, contracted between two qualified persons, which obliges them to live together throughout life. " While a variety of family structures continue to exist around the world today, including polygamous and polygynous families in many societies (including the U.S., the predominant form is built upon monogamous sexual and emotional relations (though, as noted above, this is no longer the majority form).

• Replication of Herpes Simplex Virus

  • Herpes replication entails three phases: gene transcription, viral assembly in the nucleus, and budding through the nuclear membrane.
  • Research using flow cytometry on another member of the herpes virus family, Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, indicates the possibility of an additional lytic stage, delayed-late.
  • The primary envelope is acquired by budding into the inner nuclear membrane of the cell.
  • This then fuses with the outer nuclear membrane releasing a naked capsid into the cytoplasm.

• The Iranian Nuclear Deal

• Nuclear Proliferation

• Nuclear Weapons

  • The proliferation of nuclear weapons, explosive devices which derive force from nuclear reactions, is a key challenge of foreign policy.
  • The proliferation of nuclear weapons, explosive devices which derive their destructive force from nuclear reactions (either fission or a combination of fission and fusion), is an important challenge of foreign policy.
  • By the 1960s, steps were being taken to limit both the proliferation of nuclear weapons to other countries and the environmental effects of nuclear testing.
  • The Partial Test Ban Treaty (1963) restricted all nuclear testing to underground facilities, to prevent contamination from nuclear fallout, while the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (1968) attempted to place restrictions on the types of activities signatories could participate in, with the goal of allowing the transference of non-military nuclear technology to member countries without fear of proliferation.
  • Identify the history of nuclear weapons and international efforts to regulate them