Family

According to conflict theory, how does the nuclear family facilitate exploitation?

American ideology focuses on the importance of marriage and family values and assumes that the family is at the center of almost everyone's life. How does this compare to the way that people really live?

Arlie Hochschild's study of two-income families found that women were much more likely to do the majority of the unpaid labor inside the home even after a full day's work outside the home. What term is used to describe this extra labor?

As an agent of socialization, who does the family influence?

In the United States today, very few people marry outside of their own socioeconomic class, suggesting that there is a high degree of:

How would a sociologist define "family"?

How does the U.S. Census Bureau define "family"?

How did the Industrial Revolution change the common meaning of family?

Family friends who are referred to as "Aunt" or "Uncle" are examples of:

The Brady Bunch was an American sitcom that originally aired in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and was about a large family, produced when Mike Brady, an architect with three boys, married Carol Martin, who had three girls. In both cases, the children were from previous marriages. This makes the Brady family an example of: