Explain how Establishing partnerships (dating) can be explained as being socially constructed?

Running head: SOCIOLOGY OF THE FAMILY
Sociology of the family
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SOCIOLOGY OF THE FAMILY1
Explain how Establishing partnerships (dating) can be explained as being socially constructed.
Note the implications this has for Canadian families in your response.
Relationships can be explained as a socially constructed phenomena which people learn
from a very early age from peer networks. The idea of romantic relationships especially that of
the form of expression, the norms and the activities involved to express it is usually learned by
an individual while growing up discussing with friends which later become the idealized form of
romantic relationships. The entire process is a relation between the society and individualism
which helps in the formation of important social concept like family and also paves the way for
continuing the human race through reproduction. The ethical consideration of such aspect can
lead to major gaps, due to the expectations it demands for completing the visions of marriage
faced by the Canadian families. Beyond this structure, the Canadians have also seen other
aspects of relationships that includes same sex marriage, cohabitation, covenant marriage, de
facto parenting, constitutional amendments for redefining marriage, etc.
Explain how Childhood & adulthood can be explained as being socially constructed. Note the
implications this has for Canadian families in your response.
The term child is used in various context. The social construction of the word child is
important and this would be discussed in this response. The problematic views arise with the age
of the child where the age can be tricky as what they can do is completely variable (Norozi &
Moen 2016). Moreover, the physical, psychological and social development of child is also not
the same as it depends on various factors like physical, cultural and social context (Norozi &
Moen 2016). Though a particular age has been set to define the age of a child, t5here are no such
fixed parameters to say that a person has stopped to be a child and have started the phase of an
adult. Therefore, it can be said that being a child is not universal or natural, rather it is deep