SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Nuclear Family, Gender Role, Industrial Revolution

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Sociology (SOC)
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: Bellin

Document Summary

In agrarian societies, families lived in extended family units. Economic units focused on production and served multiple social roles. Nuclear family married father and mother and their children, all exclusively. Four changes caused rise: sharing living quarters. Led to separate spheres of home and work life. Allowed a single breadwinner to support the family. Provides services that extended families used to provide. Prior, childhood was not viewed as it is now. Rise with industrial economy, education, and views on family privacy. Marriage is the most common foundation for family formation. Cohabitation and singlehood are becoming more common. Parenting is primarily done by mothers, although fathers do more than before: men are still seen as workers, women are still seen as caretakers. Negative stereotypes persist: stay-at-home fathers, single women. Young adults value egalitarian relationships: women and men view such relationships differently.