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Chapter One: Social Dynamics of Family Violence

Chapter One: Social Dynamics of Family Violence. Key Concepts:. Defining Family Violence Compare and contrast scholarly approaches to thinking about family violence Discuss a reconceptualized model for considering family violence. Objectives:.

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Chapter One: Social Dynamics of Family Violence

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  1. Chapter One:Social Dynamics of Family Violence

  2. Key Concepts: • Defining Family Violence • Compare and contrast scholarly approaches to thinking about family violence • Discuss a reconceptualized model for considering family violence

  3. Objectives: • Provide the latest empirical data on a variety of types of family violence • Define critical concepts and recognize key issues relevant to the study of family violence • Identify and introduce the reader to the theoretical paradigms that have been employed to analyze and understand family violence • Illuminate the ways in which social statuses– race, social class, gender, age, and sexuality– shape patterns of violence in families. • Provide an honest discussion of the issues that families living with violence face

  4. Key Terms:

  5. Five Definitions of Family:

  6. The Many Forms of Violence * It is important to recognize , based on the five definitions of family, that family violence is not limited to individuals whose relationships meet the legal definitions of family. Nor is family violence limited to people who live together.

  7. Theoretical Approaches

  8. 1. The family violence framework:

  9. 2. The feminist theory:

  10. Race, class, and gender theory:

  11. Social Structures Sociologists focus on the role that social structures play in shaping both the risk for family violence as well as the ways in which it is perpetrated and experienced • The economy • Money is a cite of contest no matter which relationships we are discussing and how they are configured • The role and structure of the economy itself shape patterns of family violence • Cultural norms • Our beliefs about the appropriate male and female roles • Religion • A primary source of cultural information regarding appropriate roles in families comes to us from religion • All the major religions across the globe reinforce the notion that men are to be the heads of households and both women and children are supposed to be submissive to them • The military • A sex-segregated institution that shares much in common with religion • The military, along with the current state of the of war in which the United States finds itself, also contributes in various ways to family violence

  12. Social Status Variation

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