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Sociology Assignment 3
Sociology Assignment 3
This was more to what I had known when I was 16, however my ideas
were highly finite and insufficient. This course on Family and Intimacy
has transformed my ideas about marriage, family and intimacy in
fundamental ways.
Family is often seen as something constant and incapable of change
over time. Family is seen as a natural community. Idea of family is
often talked about in biological sense and socio-cultural aspects are
often left out though family is relatively static and is a social creation
which can be a subject of historical study.Changes in family occurs
with social change and several factors have significantly influenced
change in family over time which includes separation of dwelling and
workplace, strengthening of relations between parents and children,
split between related and non-related members of the family,
emergence of households consisting only of members of the family in
modern sense of the term as initial households included servants and
others who were not related by birth, emergence of households based
on religious affiliations. Thus, to appeal to the natural order of the
family from the point of view of social history is an attempt to retain a
specific family structure. Certain factors which seem essential to the
society in due course of time would be taken over by another social
change including the patriarchal family structure emphasizing on
natural authority of husband over wife and children.