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Sociological Analysis of Families 1. Definition of family: Now and Before Families are the foundation of all societies. They can be formed by father-mother-children combination or even more complicated combination of aunt-cousin-grand relatives along with father and mother. In the primary stage of family life in the United States everyone from every generation lived together in one or two houses. Those were the multigenerational families. After that, the idea of traditional family evolved. Married couple with children is often called traditional families. "The family is a social institution that unites people in cooperative groups to oversee the bearing and raising of children." (Macionis P.336) Family scholars Bubolz and Sontag have their own definition of family: "We define families in an inclusive sense to be composed not only persons related by blood, marriage or adoption, but also sets of interdependent but independent persons who share some common goals, resources, and a...

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