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Community College of Baltimore County Structural Functionalism Discussion Paper

 

Assignment 1: The Social Construction of Family Life: A Sociological Analysis (500-700 words, not including reference list). Worth 20% of final grade.

Families differ significantly across time, societies, and cultures. These differences may exist, for example, in family relationships; forms of marriage; expectations about family roles, responsibilities, and duties; and how “family” is defined (culturally, legally, politically). Your task in this assignment is to compare the definition of family and the family relationships in your own society (or your own culture, or the present time) with that of another society (or another culture or another time), using one of the three core sociological perspectives.

In your assignment, please specifically identify the two societies, cultures, or times that you will be comparing in your essay, and then choose one of the following three options: