SOC334H5 Lecture 4: soc334 lecture 4
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Test m/c, sa, essay q"s essay (can be point form) focus on concepts, theories, explanations of aging sample q"s will be posted. 3 parts of family life to look @: Contributions of old ppl life course perspective= helps explain dynamic nature of family life and social relations. Disproportion b/t men and women who are married/remarried: men tend to remarry more than women. Married ppl have higher life satisfaction: happier or tend to be healthier, more financial resources. Correlational relationship, not necessarily causal b/w marriage and happiness. Ppl who married at the same time tend to have similar marital happiness. Common-law unions: lat (living apart but together, higher pool of senior men living in common-law relationships than women, women tend to not cohabit at a later age. Cohabitation: possibility that middle-and older- aged parents are learning cohabitation from their young adult children, parents are more likely to cohabit if they have young adult child who cohabit as well.
