4. • Family is a complex social phenomenon. It
is the oldest natural community of people
bound by blood.
5. • This is a small contact group of people who
interact with each other, a special form of
interaction.
• A special social institution that regulates
reproduction rights through a special system
of roles, norms, and organizational forms.
6. • Family plays a special role in the history of
human society. She serves it as a carrier of
"social continuity". Family is the most
important social institution is the whole
system of relationships: marriage and
family, economic and legal, ethical and
psychological..
7. • Because family plays a man not only as a
biological being, but as a citizen, because it
primarily is socialization. The whole set of
major problems related to family, studies
such a special sociological theory as the
sociology of the family
8. • Family is the basic social institutions from
which other social institutions have grown
and developed. In producers, slaves and
other servants as well as for the members
connected by a common descent or blood
relation. The word “Family” has derived
from a Roman word “Famulus” which
means servantssanctions.
9. • In other words, the family primarily and
mainly carries out the socialization of new
members of society. Socialization is the
process of identity formation, training and
learning and individual values, norms,
attitudes, behavioral patterns specific to the
society, as well as community groups.
10. The Different Types of
Families;
Nuclear
Blended
Step
Single
Extended
Single parent
Unrelated
Adopted
Childless
Foster
18. Single Parent Families
Children who
live with one
parent
►Single parent
Includes only one parent, the mother
or the father, who lives with the children.
Single parents may be divorced,
widowed, unwed, or abandoned.
19. Extended Families
Families that
include relatives
other than parents
and children
►Extended
Is made up of nuclear or single-parent
families plus other relatives such as
grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.
21. Foster Parent Families
Families
who take in
children
temporarily
►Foster
Includes parents who provide full-time
child care for someone else’s child for a
designated period of time.
23. • Patriarchy is a social system in which
males hold primary power and predominate
in roles of political leadership, moral
authority, social privilege and control of
property. In the domain of the family,
fathers or father-figures hold authority over
women and children.
24. • According to the Oxford English Dictionary
(OED), matriarchy is a "form of social
organization in which the mother or oldest
female is the head of the family, and
descent and relationship are reckoned
through the female line; government or rule
by a woman or women."
33. Family System Concepts
The system tries to be in it’s own balance.
Some systems are healthy (functional) and some are
unhealthy (dysfunctional).
Families have rules, spoken or unspoken.
Each person has a role in the system.
Systems include boundaries.
Some systems are open and some are closed.
There are different types of connections between
individuals in a system.
34. Family Life Cycle
Stage Duration(years)
Newly married, no children 2
Families with infants 2.
Families with preschool children 3.