SOC244H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Middle Age, Life Satisfaction, Westermarck Effect
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** although the midterm should cover chapters 7, 8, 10-11 the slides after the midterm cover chapter 7, 8 and 9. Stage 2: childbearing families (oldest child, birth-30 months) Stage 3: families with pre-school children (oldest child, 2. 5-6 years) Stage 4: families with schoolchildren (oldest child, 6-13 years) Stage 5: families with teenagers (oldest child, 13-20 years) Stage 6: families as launching centers (first child gone to last child leaving home) Stage 7: middle-age parents (cid:523)(cid:498)empty nest(cid:499) to retirement(cid:524) Five basic themes of the life course perspective: the importance of multiple temporal contexts, social-structural context, diachronic process and change, heterogeneity and, multidisciplinary assessment. A life course perspective emphasizes the importance of time, context, process and meaning of human development and family life. Family events and family transitions influence individuals and interactions. Historical time events in the broader social context influence roles and values. The term, (cid:498)childhood(cid:499) is generally recognised as a socially constructed phenomenon.
