devry SOCS315 week 7 assignment

Marriage
& Family – Week 7 Homework

Page
442
1.
What factors bind marriages and
families together? How have these factors changed, and how has the divorce rate
been affected?
1.
How is “his” divorce different
from “her” divorce? How are these differences related to society’s gender
expectations? In your observation, are the descriptions given in this chapter
accurate assessments of divorce outcomes for men and women today?Page 470
2.
The remarried
family has been called an incomplete institution. What does this mean? How does
this affect the people involved in a remarriage? Include a discussion of kin
networks and family law. Do you think this situation is changing?2.
What evidence
can you gather from observation or your own personal experience or both to show
that stepfamilies (a) may be more culturally acceptable today than in the past
and (b) remain negatively stereotyped as not as functional or as normal as
first-marriage, nuclear families?Page 499
2.
Apply the
exchange, interactionist, structure-functionalist, or ecological perspective
(see.vitalsource.com/books/9781133795278/content/id/ch02″>Chapter
2) to the process of providing
elder care.