SOC-1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Family Values, De Facto
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Argues we need to return to traditional family values, the way we never were. Like most visions of a golden age," the traditional family" my students describe evaporates on closer examination. It is an ahistorical amalgam of structures, values, and behaviors that never coexisted in the same time and place (coontz, p. 143). Whenever people propose that we go back to the traditional family, i always suggest that they pick a ballpark date for the family the have in mind. Once pinned down, they are invariably unwilling to accept the package deal that comes with their chosen model (coontz, p. 144). Increase in all different forms of marriage that are possibility: same sex marriage, cohabitation, Big idea by cherlin on why marriage is de-institutionalized. Marriage used to be about a partnership and how one fulfills the other, and now if it doesn"t fulfill your own interests, you end it.
