SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Nuclear Family, Demography

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

Document Summary

Most sociologists agree w/ the functionalist view that the present situation of the family is in flux and has some potentially negative effects. View perceives the tnf as great, but conflict sociologists have different view. Conflict and domination happen in the tnf. Trapped in conflict: individuals especially women weren"t able to leave unhappy marriages in the tnf. Greater social support in quebec one reason for greater divorce/single parents households. Kids: evidence that divorce is less traumatic than staying together in high-conflict households. Although divorce is more traumatic in low-conflict. View generally suggests that there is only one good/natural form of the family: the tnf. Most sociologists things this is pure bs. Even today, when many people still have ideas of tnf as normal, empirical evidence clearly shows that it isn"t. Evidence that a # of different familial structures can successfully raise children and allow people to lead quality lives. And conflict/feminist perspectives offer very different policy prescriptions.