SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Voluntary Childlessness, Sociobiology, Talcott Parsons
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Nuclear family: in which the man is the main breadwinner and the woman has primary responsibility for the children. Women"s concerns about family tend to be focused on the difficulties of combining employment and child care. Men"s concerns centre on the growing elusiveness of occupational success in this uncertain economy. Extended family house-holds: consist of three generations. Common sense suggests that biology produces the family. Socio-biology attempts to apply the laws of biological evolution to social behaviour. Males who were more aggressive and females who were more nurturing had more offspring. Often the biological father is different from the social father. The best unit in which to raise a child is the nuclear family (talcott parsons) The functions that are emphasized allegedly meet the needs of society, not necessarily of the individuals of it. Family: sets of relationships people create to share resources daily in order to ensure their own and any dependants" welfare.
