SOC303H1 Lecture 1: SOC303 Lecture #1
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Soc303 lecture #1: they have and raise the next generation of children, the provide for the next generation. Relationship patterns: unpaid labor (reproductive labor) Notions of family: everyday institutive understandings, politically contested, scientific context. How demographers understand (cid:498)the family(cid:499): families = fertility (young, white, straight married couples, broader notions of family. In what ways have families changed: union instability, marriage and childrearing become separate, diversity of family and family forms, longer life span. Multigenerational households: as of 2011, 4. 8% of children under 14 lived in a household with at least one grandparent, 0. 5% lived with grandparents and not parents. An increasing number of young adults are living with their parents for longer. Overpopulated: bbc documentary: how successful has bangladesh been in reducing the fertility rate, 1972 is the first full year of independence in bangladesh. In 40 years bangladesh has gone from 7 to 2 children per woman. China and india have trouble controlling their pop.
