SOC244H5 Lecture 6: Lecture 6-27th October, 2016
Document Summary
Family development agency for family career how family developed over time. Life course perspective how do we look at family life and its issues into different stages, middle year and aging issue of family life. Family development: divide the family into different stage from family formation, marriage, kids and aging. Critique about modern assumptions quite strong one generation nuclear family and what about exceptional families who do not want to marry and who do not want to have kids, two or three generational families and divorce. May contain different parts for different kinds of families. In certain stage there is different issues for middle age, old age and young. When you know the configuration of the family what have they gone through can be predicted. Reference about their life, the transition from one stage to another. Marriage to child birth, from first child to second and factors influencing is important.
