Sociology 2235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Normal Extension, Household Division, Multiracial
1 Apr 2016
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Common-law union: a conjugal relaionship of cohabitaion (3 years in ontario or 1 year with a child) Marriage: the formal and legally-contractual recogniion of two partners as a union. Main reasons for cohabitaion: non-tradiional family values, economic beneits. Gender roles in romanic relaionships are changing: men used to have more power, but women"s increased employment can act as a source of power. Gender inequality: higher income did not completely change inequality, but women have more power in certain domains, reproducing tradiional social norms (women sill do the bulk of domesic labour) Face-to-face interviews with 30 cohabitaing couples in the working class. They found that couples with lower educaion background are more likely to cohabitate. Stage one: cohabitaion is rare, only a small populaion is cohabitaing, not greatly acknowledged or accepted. Stage two: cohabitaion is viewed as a prelude to marriage. Stage three: cohabitaion is viewed as an acceptable alternaive: canada is at this stage.
