SOC244H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Patrilineality, Quantitative Research, Focus Group
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Canadian families: context, patterns, and dynamics: profile of canadian families, 7aboriginals, migration and families, research methods. Main themes in order to study families, we need themes. The influence of social structure on families: what are the structural factors (ex. What are the relationship between economic status vs. family structure?o 66. The integration of macro-level and micro-level perspectives: we see family under a social context, what is the context; political, economic factors shaping characteristics of a family. Are canadian families becoming smaller: in 1961, 16% of canadian families were made up of six or more persons, compared with only 2. 6% in 2002. More religious society than other provinces, but more common laws (also comparable to european countries: married couples make up the majority. Distribution of private households by household size trends (1961 to 2011: proportion of middle size families, 3 or 4 people are stable, proportion of larger families are declining over the years.
