SOCY 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Declaration Of Nullity, Coparenting

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 352
• Professor: W.Andrew Silver

Document Summary

Socy 352 lecture # 10 (week 5) Last time & today: marriage and divorce: Marriage was an arrangement between men - the passage of private property (giving the women from the father to the prospective husband) Something tangible (land, money, women) passed for something intangible (protection, social status, etc. ) Marriage wasn"t private it was a social decision (some families earned social status by marring their daughters to men in higher social status) Marriage dissolution in canada before 1968: marriage as sacrament, annulments. Main route to separation attained through the church. One individuals from the couple had to convince the priest why they can"t fix their marriage, which gave the priest a lot of power. This led to gendered outcomes if divorce was granted: gendered outcomes. Women were seen as social outcasts if they had been divorces because men had power and could change the reason for the divorce. Effects on parents social strain, negative work performance, financial hardship.