SOCI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Domestic Violence, Deinstitutionalisation, Individualism

• School: UBC
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 102
• Professor: Katherine Corrigall- Brown

Document Summary

Increase in cohabitation without marriage: decrease in marriage rates, changing norms around spousal roles, women in the workforce, more equal relationships, rising divorce rates, rising between 1970-1990, now stable, rising diversity in family forms. Increased lone parent families: rise in same-sex marriages. Increasing in non-marital childbearing along with more childless couples. Why is the family changing: rise in women"s rights. Increasing tolerance of diversity: declining levels of religiosity, rising individualism, changing idea of the role of marriage from: institutional marriages to. Structural functionalist perspective on the family: reproduction, socialization, support, regulation. Conflict perspective on the family: age groups (parent and children; older and younger sibling, gender groups (spouses, family as an agent of socialization that perpetuates capitalism and keeps society as it is. Arranged marriages: challenges: marriage as based on romantic love, arranged marriage partners twice as satisfied with marriage than non-