Examples of Family Life in the following topics:
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- Family life, including marriage, childbearing and household composition are strongly influenced by social class.
- Historically, working class rural populations in agrarian regions have had larger families than wealthier urban families.
- Family life - marriage and childbearing patterns, household composition, and home stability - are strongly influenced by social class.
- Social class has both a cause and an effect relationship with family composition.
- Give examples for effects of social class on marriage, birth rates, and family composition
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- Social expectations that women manage childcare contribute to the gender pay gap and other limitations in professional life for women.
- This discrepancy is frequently attributed to women's desire to have a family life.
- Family obligations tend to pull down on women's earnings as they proceed through the life course and have more children.
- The demands of women having to manage work and family lives have become an obsession of American popular culture.
- Traditionally, women are expected to stay at home and take care of the children, while men earn wages to financially support their families.
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- Why do families exist?
- What if you were raised by your grandparents and your parents played little to no role in your life or if you grew up in an orphanage or the foster care system?
- 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.
- 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).
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- While education can improve life chances, not everyone has equal access to education.
- The more education people have, the higher their income, the better their life chances, and the higher their standard of living.
- In part, life chances are determined by birth.
- An individual born into a wealthy family will have higher life chances than average because they will have access to greater opportunities from the moment they are born.
- Members of racial and ethnic minority groups drop out at higher rates than white students, as do those from low-income families, from single-parent households, and from families in which one or both parents also did not complete high school.
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- Primary socialization takes place early in life, as a child and adolescent.
- Some of the more significant contributors to the socialization process are: parents, guardians, friends, schools, siblings or other family members, social clubs (like religions or sports teams), life partners (romantic or platonic), and co-workers.
- By the time individuals are in their preteen or teenage years, peer groups play a more powerful role in socialization than family members.
- The nuclear family serves as the primary force of socialization for young children.
- Give examples of how the socialization process progresses throughout a person's life
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- Gender role theory posits that boys and girls learn the appropriate behavior and attitudes from the family with which they grow up.
- Families divide responsibilities between parents.
- In many American families, the father serves as the breadwinner, while the mother maintains the household.
- Family is the most important agent of socialization because it serves as the center of a child's life.
- Justify how the family acts as the most important agent of gender socialization for children and adolescents
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- 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.
- He or she may share a relationship with a partner, but lead a single life style.
- Examine the different types of families and the changing face of family roles
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- Families and close friends are examples of primary groups
- He labeled groups as "primary" because people often experience such groups early in their life and such groups play an important role in the development of personal identity.
- Secondary groups generally develop later in life and are much less likely to be influential on one's identity.
- This family from the 1970s would be an example of a primary group.
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- Student achievement is highly correlated with family characteristics, including household income and parental educational attainment.
- Not only do wealthier students tend to attend better-funded schools, but they often also benefit from family background characteristics.
- In fact, family background may be even more important than school funding.
- Educational deficits resulting from inequality also affect future life trajectories.
- Examine the various factors within family background that give students an advantage in the educational realm
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- Social norms pertaining to gender are developed through socialization, the lifelong process of inheriting, interpreting, and disseminating norms, customs, and ideologies.The process of socialization continues throughout one's life and is constantly renegotiated, but socialization begins as soon as one is born.
- Primary socialization takes place early in life, as a child and adolescent.
- Secondary socialization refers to the socialization that takes place throughout one's life, both as a child and as one encounters new groups that require additional socialization.
- The example set by an individual's family is also important for socialization; children who grow up in a family with the husband a breadwinner and the wife a homemaker will tend to accept this as the social norm, while those who grow up in families with female breadwinners, single parents, or same-sex couples will develop different ideas of gender norms.