SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Speed Dating, Social Forces, Nuclear Family

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5
• Professor: Nathan Innocente

Document Summary

Traditional nuclear family: a nuclear family in which the husband works outside the home for money and the wife works without pay inside of the home. Nuclear family: consists of a cohabiting man and woman who maintain a socially approved sexual relationship and have at least one child. Sexual regulation: your own, or you"re being regulated by someone. More women are having children in their 30"s. The number of children per family has dropped below the replacement rate. There are more couples without children than with. Children are leaving home at an older age. Conflict & feminism between men and women sexual and economic dominance in traditional nuclear families. Proliferation of non-nuclear families as a response to changes in power relations. Traditional family emerged along with inequalities in wealth that gave rise to male. Sociologists understand changes through study of economic gender patriarchy. Upheaval in the social and legal definition of marriage (july 2005 in canada)