SOC314H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Asteroid Family, Stephanie Coontz, Chain Migration
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Modern ideas that developed and shaped family. Cott- ideas that developed around the home. Tamara h, working class families: the idea that marriage should be based on love. Stephanie coontz, marriage, a history- argues that it developed slowly over centuries , arranged marriages modified 17th century, 18th century, choice replaced arrangements. By 1850s for middle class and upper class couples love was seen at the basis of marriage and should be based on individual choice. Love is not an invention of the 19th century, but love was never previously connected with marriage: household economies in which married couples established independent households and working partnerships : foundation for (later) love-based marriage. Different type of family pattern than the rest of the world, people est separate household from parents, it was essential that they get along. Represented a change in thinking about family, view of marriage was second best- way to virtue was celibacy, purpose of marriage was procreation.
