SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Stephanie Coontz, Moral Panic, Nuclear Family
30 Apr 2019
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Nuclear family: parent or parents and children. It is also a social institution: normalised or ideal type of families have more privilege over other types of families. Smith was concerned about how snaf might affect single mothers and working mothers. This family type was reinforced as normal: structural functionalism (patriarchal model) Women fill expressive roles and provide emotional support. Men will instrumental roles: working outside home and authoritative. David popenoe spread moral panic about single mothers. Marriage promotion for single mothers and fewer financial services available to single mothers. Children from single parent households suffer and we assume that it is because of their parent but it is because of financial circumstances: traditional family values and history- stephanie coontz. There is no such thing as the male breadwinner family. Since ancient times men and women have been working together and also children. 1950s policies permitted men to work, women to stay at home and children to go to school.
