FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Role Model, Baby Boomers, Size Small
29 May 2018
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BRINGING UP A BABY
• Socialization
o Passig o to e eers a ulture’s ay of thikig ad atig
▪ Cradle to grave process
o Theories
▪ Structural functional
• Transmission of cultural norms ensures stability
▪ Ecological
• How social context affects families
▪ Conflict and feminist
• How inequities are maintained from one generation to the next
▪ Symbolic interaction
• Shaping occurs through day to day interactions among family
members
▪ System
• Emphasize family subsystems and boundaries in shaping children
• Children
o Different definitions
▪ Economic resource
• Child labour
o Early years of Canada
▪ Closeness and love
• Emotional development and sensitivity
o 20th century Canada
o Developmental stages
▪ Infancy
• Trust vs mistrust
▪ Early childhood
• Autonomy vs shame, doubt
▪ Play age
• Initiative vs guilt
▪ School age
• Industry vs inferiority
▪ Adolescence
• Identity vs identity confusion
• Parents and Socialization
o Family structure
▪ Number of parents
• Single
o Higher risk for
▪ Low academic achievement
▪ Dropping out
o Why
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▪ Inter-parental conflict
▪ Weak material resources
• Triparenting
o Typically a teenage mom and her parents
▪ Marital status
• Never married, divorced, remarried
o Kids have more difficulties growing up
o Difficulties greatest immediately following the change in
family structure
• Both biological parents present
o Do best
• Married vs cohabiting
o No difference in school engagement
o Difference in perceived achievement
▪ Gender and sexual orientation of parents
• Same sex
o No difference in
▪ Psychological wellbeing
▪ Peer relations
▪ School variables
▪ Substance use
▪ Delinquency
▪ Victimization
▪ Likelihood of kids being homosexual
o Difference
▪ Outperform on several measures
▪ Stigmatization
▪ Paret’s eduatio ad eployent
• Jobs
o Hours worked
o Work demands
o Income
▪ Influence where someone lives
• Different
o Schools
o Recreational facilities
o Peer groups
• Education
o Higher
▪ More likely to be employed
▪ Have fewer periods of unemployment
▪ Higher pay
▪ Adolescent moms
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• Risk for developmental problems
o Premature
o Lack financial and social resources
o Stable and loving relationship- 2 parents
o Teens finding own identity and impatient with limits on
their activities
▪ Late parents
• Primary reasons for delay in child bearing
o Higher education
o Increased labour force participation
o Delayed union formation
• Advantages for delaying child bearing
o Stable home
o Favourable income
o Good neighbourhood
o Interaction
▪ Parenting style
• Uninvolved
o Low in both responsiveness and demands placed on kids
• Authoritarian
o Requires unquestioning obedience
• Permissive
o Allows kids to make their own decisions without providing
firm guidelines
• Authoritative
o Sets expectations for kids but adjusts them to the
individual
▪ Spanking
• Mixed views
o No
▪ Child abuse
o Yes
▪ Religion
• Part of punitive parenting style
o Can increase behavioural problems
o Teach that you hit to solve problems
▪ Family Atmosphere
• Conflict
o Escalate if parents are
▪ Hostile
▪ Authoritarian
• Conflict between parents
o Increases risk that kids will have adjustment issues
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Document Summary
Infancy: trust vs mistrust, early childhood, autonomy vs shame, doubt, play age. Identity vs identity confusion: parents and socialization, family structure, number of parents, single, higher risk for, low academic achievement, dropping out, why. Increased labour force participation: delayed union formation, advantages for delaying child bearing, stable home, favourable income, good neighbourhood. Involve little thought and often occur daily: dinnertime, manners. Internet use: rituals, tell families, this is who we are, sitting down together for family dinner, traditions, rituals that occur less frequently around some particular event, thanksgiving dinner, parenting diversity, english canadians, encourage. Independent problem solving: limited contact with friends, harsh treatment, spanking, cue cards, french canadians, encourage, ties with own social and family group, reliance on extended family, aboriginal, encourage. Interdependence: spirituality, 1890-1970 residential schools, policies aimed to erase aboriginal language and culture, hunger, abuse, welfare dependency, alcohol, 2006, compensation for the damage brought about by the residential.
