Sociology of the Family: Global Advances and Challenges

2012 ◽  
pp. 173-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara H. Settles
Keyword(s):  
The Family ◽  
Sociology Of The Family

SOME PROBLEMS OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE FAMILY OF THE MODERN SOCIETY

2021 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 28-33
Author(s):  
Daurenbek Kusainov ◽  
◽  
Ainur Sadyrova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Individual Subject ◽  
The Family ◽  
Sociology Of The Family ◽  
The Individual

Marriage and the family are important institutions of human society. As we know, they include different private institutions: the institute of kinship, the institute of motherhood and fatherhood, the institute of property, the institute of social protection of childhood and guardianship, and others. The process of family formation is the process of assimilation of social norms, roles and standards that regulate courtship, the choice of a marriage partner, family stabilization, sexual behavior, relations with the parents of spouses.The sociology of the family in a narrow sense, as part of general sociology, as a theory of the “middle level”; considers a special sphere of life and culture of families. The sociology of the family deals with a group, and not with an individual subject of life activity. A group of people connected by family and kinship relations forms that part of the social reality that is studied by the sociology of the family, where the family lifestyle is at the forefront. The sociology of the family considers the individual as a member of the family, integral part of the society. The sociology of the family correlates with the sociology of the individual; it studies personality, first of all, through the prism of socio-cultural intra-family ties, family identity of the individual. In any societythe family has a dual character. On the one hand, it is a social institution, on the other-a small group that has its own laws of functioning and development.

Transforming the Sociology of the Family: New Directions for Teaching and Texts

1988 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxine Baca Zinn ◽  
D. Stanley Eitzen
Keyword(s):  
The Family ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Sociology Of The Family

The Sociology of the Family in Spain:

1996 ◽  
Vol 23 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 575-598
Author(s):  
Lluís Flaquer ◽  
Juilo Iglesias de Ussel
Keyword(s):  
The Family ◽  
Sociology Of The Family

Introduction to Georg Simmel's `On the Sociology of the Family'

1998 ◽  
Vol 15 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 277-281
Author(s):  
David Frisby
Keyword(s):  
Early Article ◽  
The Family ◽  
Sociology Of The Family

The Introduction to Simmel's early article on the family locates it in the context of his sociological concerns in the 1890s. The article is also placed in the context of his probable anthropological sources. Brief mention is made of some of his other contributions to the study of love and eroticism.

The Changing Sociological Construct of the Family

1988 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Wilson ◽  
Ray Pahl
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Meanings ◽  
The Family ◽  
Sociology Of The Family ◽  
Analytical Category

Recent attempts to announce the death of the family as a useful analytical category for sociologists are rebutted as being premature. The tendency to view household relations as family relations or, indeed, couple or gender relations as family relations seems to have arisen in the early 1970s. Earlier attempts to construct an empirically grounded analysis of family relationships have been curiously neglected. An account of one family on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent provides some illustrative ethnography on both the positive uses of family members – particularly siblings – and on the way the social boundaries of this family are constructed by its members. It is argued that the family is best understood as a system of relationships that change over time. There is a curious lack of systematic ethnography of contemporary family relationships so that what is taught to students as the sociology of the family may be widely at variance with their own personal experience. This may be partly a result of relying too much on random surveys of households at the expense of detailed explorations of existing patterns of social relationships and social meanings. Developing theoretical arguments on the basis of inadequate or inappropriate ethnography is evidently a dangerous and misleading exercise.

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