SOC 500 Lecture 4: Youth and Society Lecture Feb 15
16 Feb 2017
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The process through which we develop a sense of who we are and how we learn to function socially in society, life-long process occurring through social interaction. Primary socialization: takes place in relationships among significant others, and especially through family. Secondary socialization: takes place in wider society generally in the context of socializing institutions, meaning school, church, peers, the media, and so on. Many young people in history in their 20s continued to live at home until they got married, young person would move back home if something happened to a parent. Even though new patterns of family life aren"t so new, the causes and experiences of these patterns to the participant aren"t the same, and family life is constantly changing. More common-law couples (increase of 19% in 5 years) as well as same-sex couples (65,000 couples in 2011) For the first time, in 2006, there were more unmarried canadians over the age of 15 than married.
