SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Nuclear Family, Social Reproduction, Mass Media
6 Nov 2018
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Groups of people related by birth, affinity, or cohabitation. A group of people who share a relationship by blood, marriage, or legal adoption living together. Correlations between divorce or children living in single family homes and the propensity to drop out of school/when girls become sexually active. It is unknown that these outcomes are caused by divorce itself, there may be other variables involved, such as poverty or a predisposition of depression in the family. The number of parents involved in a child"s life do matter, but not as much as we may think and other factors may have larger affects than that. Emerged as the standard family formation in modern. Emerged as the standard family formation in modern society because it was the most optimal form for fulfilling the norms in that time for society. Society needed labourers working long, hard hours so that women are needed for the reproduction rather than production.
