SOCIOL 2PP3 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Cohabitation, Canada, Secularism
SOCIOL 2PP3
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Defining Families
• Diversity, choice, fluidity in different aspects of private life and close relations.
Definitions of families and marriage has changed
Social pressure to pursue the conventional/ traditional/ nuclear family life (heterosexual relationship,
married with children)
• Relationship status.
More visibility of polyamorous relationships
• Living arrangements.
Partners sharing a household or choosing to live in separate households
• Family structure
• Childbearing and parenting
Adoption
Different kinds of surrogacy
Sperm donors
IVF - in vitro fertilization
Embryos in storage to donate to others in need, wanting to adopt them - genetic siblings are being
raised in different families because of this
• Sexual orientation, sexuality, and sexual relationships
Fluidity in sexual orientation and sexual relationships
Voluntarily child-less couples
Non-monogamous relationships
• Emotional intimacy
Growing numbers of people not partnering
• Becoming normative for people to experience more numerous intimate relationships , living
arrangements and family reconfiguration due to:
• Social changes
People moving away from religion
Increasing secularism - people being less traditional
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• Economic changes
Precarious employment affecting people’s decisions in relationships. Due to the high cost of living,
couples can’t afford living with their partner, people are living with their parents longer.
• Political changes
Shift away from government and state support (neoliberal economic policy)
• Legal changes
Family law, such as divorce or when couples are living in the household and break-up
LGBTQ relationships and child-bearing
• Technological changes
People meeting online
Online communication
People ending their relationships online ex. ghosting
• State policy relies on specific definitions of family that have historically excluded many families
• While the Canadian government has adopted more inclusive definitions of family — vestiges still
remain of non-inclusive definitions of family
2016 - if you were a same-sex parent but not biologically connected to your child, you would need to
legally adopt the child.
2017 - change to child support law to give adult child with disabilities access to parental cash
• Tax policy
ex. Income splitting - 2015
One parent in paid employment, making an income (highest tax bracket - the more you make, the
higher your taxes), the other parent not in paid employment (stay-at-home parent).
Harper’s government only gave a tax benefit to families where one parent stayed at home and only
one parent is in in paid employment.
This is income inequality because with out a high income from either parent, both parents must
work.
Trudeau then eliminated income splitting.
• Assumptions of economic support: OSAP, filial responsibly laws, social assistance and cohabiting
couples
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Document Summary
Defining families: diversity, choice, fluidity in different aspects of private life and close relations. Social pressure to pursue the conventional/ traditional/ nuclear family life (heterosexual relationship, married with children: relationship status. More visibility of polyamorous relationships: living arrangements. Partners sharing a household or choosing to live in separate households: family structure, childbearing and parenting. Embryos in storage to donate to others in need, wanting to adopt them - genetic siblings are being raised in different families because of this: sexual orientation, sexuality, and sexual relationships. Growing numbers of people not partnering: becoming normative for people to experience more numerous intimate relationships , living arrangements and family reconfiguration due to, social changes. Increasing secularism - people being less traditional: economic changes. Due to the high cost of living, couples can"t afford living with their partner, people are living with their parents longer: political changes. Shift away from government and state support (neoliberal economic policy: legal changes.