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                                   New reproductive technologies and kinship Reproductive Technologies are designed to intervene in the process of human reproduction. They fall into four groups:\  a) The first and the most familiar group includes those concerned with fertility control: with preventing conception, frustrating implantation of an embryo or terminating pregnancy,, i.e. contraceptive technologies b) The second group of RTs is concerned with the 'management of labour and childbirth'.  c) The third group includes those concerned with improving the health and genetic characteristics of foetuses and of newborn babies.  d) The fourth group includes conceptive technologies, directed to the promotion of pregnancy through techniques for overcoming or bypassing fertility (Stanworth: 1987:10-11 ) Various stances on the new reproductive technologies  There are various positions that have been taken vis-a-vis NRTs. They are as follows: a) NRTs are valuable and should b

                                      SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER Gender is such a familiar part of daily life that it usually takes a deliberate disruption of our expectations of how women and men are supposed to act to pay attention to how it is produced. Gender signs and signals are so ubiquitous that we usually fail to note them - unless they are missing or ambiguous. Then we are uncomfortable until we have successfully placed the other person in a gender status; otherwise, we feel socially dislocated. In our society, in addition to man and woman, the status can be transvestite (a person who dresses in opposite-gender clothes) and transsexual (a person who has had sex-change surgery). Transvestites and transsexuals carefully construct their gender status by dressing, speaking, walking, gesturing in the ways prescribed for women or men, whichever they want to be taken for - and so does any "normal." person.  Once a child's gender is evident, others treat one g

Types or Forms of the family Sociologists have classified the family based on the following factors: 1. Size 2. Residence 3. Ancestors 4. Power and authority; and 5. Marriage Before considering these factors, it can be accepted that there are other bases for classifying the family based on historical chronological. It is classified as ancient, medieval, and mode on families. Based on social ecology, the family can be divided into rural and urban families. Based on structure, it is divided into primitive agrarian and industrial families. After these indications, we can examine in detail this typology. 1 Size : A threefold classification can be discussed based on size. a. Nuclear families b. Extended families c. Joint families In a nuclear family,  the husband, wife, and their children live together. According to Murdock, the nuclear family may be further divided into two types. A) The family of orientation B) The family of procreation: The family of orientation is t