SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Religious Education In Primary And Secondary Education, Nuclear Family
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Key issues: family is valued but seen as threatened. We look back at the family in history. *** both view romanticize the past refers to the past*** No idealize past, but seek out the facts in order to further understand, we should piece it together from church records, graves, medical reports, etc . Behaviour is a function of the social conditions under which it occurs. E. g. lack of resources in medicine, age, protein. Uses age as a criteria for waiting least of lack of resources the oldest son would get more to keep the family up. Pre-industrial family is extended 3 or more generations. Modern family syndrome now, majority of couples don"t have children. About 1 in 3 make it past 5! Most families were about to 6-8 people. Only the very rich had big families the composition was strange the children left early kids would be sent out to work at 7 or 8 (if they poor)
