Sociology 2241E Lecture 13: Lecture 13 - The Changing Family
7 Feb 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Nuclear family: traditional two parents and kids. There were gender roles, but males and females worked side by side in the fields. This is when factories came into place. Cottage industries (making sweaters raise the sheep, shave the wool, take it to the cottage and then you sell it) If you cohabit you have double the chances of getting divorced (why is this a thing?) Divorce rates are increasing (40% in canada) Lone parent families are increasing (not necessarily because of divorce but because of death a result of being widowed) Social exchange theory: make an arrangement where you can more easily do what suits you. Pyramid shaped families (we had more children then we do now) Needs to be 2. 1 children to replace the population. Fictive kin: people who have no relation to you at all but they act like family. Changes in the law (allowing divorce for ex. )
