SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cultural Reproduction, Online Dating Service, General Social Survey
14 Apr 2016
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Popular notions: sites of attachment, emotional intensity and sentimentality. An adequate definition of family is impossible and undesirable. Survey (2010)- presence of children key indicator to public in constitution. Definitions vary- situational (pension, school, social policies) Ideally understood as fluid (something that changes over time) 2001: previously married children included in census family. 2001: a child & her/his lone-parent living in 3 generation household. 2011l same-sex couples are 0. 8% of all coupled in canada: 32. 5% are married, 67. 5% are common law, compared with 16. 5% married 2006. 2011: inclusion of stepfamilies (2 types: simple- all children are the biological or adopted children of one and only one married spouse or common-law partner, complex stepfamily: At lease one child of both parents and at least one child of only one parent. At least one child of both parents and at least one child of each parent. At least one child of each parent and no children of both parents.
