SOCI 324 Lecture 7: Marriage
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More distributed in jobs for those less than bach. Getting a bachelor degree gets you more into the professions category class -> because of those credentials they earned. Replication of work across time and generations are common too: how likely a child is employed in a work field that their parents were. Because of knowledge you pick up from your parent. Social aging largely defined by the roles we take on. Those may have helped to figure out future. The package deal of fatherhood (townsend): transitions and roles considered jointly, as more or less implicit and taken-for-granted project, rather than separately. *(husband, father, homeowner, breadwinner) all is dependent on each other. Growing up and settling down in orderly fashion . Childhood -> school -> work -> love & marriage. This idea of what love might be often guides people in terms of own relationships. Stereotyped indicators of what a marriage looks like.
