SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Family Values, Social History, Nancy Fraser

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 104
• Professor: Laura Thrasher

Document Summary

Coontz, the way we weren"t: the myth and reality of the traditional family" : written in the late 1990s, context: discourses of family values ; nostalgia for lost traditional family, coontz, social history of family, changing notions of family overtime. Coontz: no single traditional family ever existed. Traditional family: thought of as an independent household anchored by one male breadwinner and one female who raises children, and their biological children. However, from both a global and historical perspective, this vision of the independent homemaker-bread-winner household is relatively rare, modern and short lived arrangement. Family: core institution, provides the first and immediate context for our physical, emotional and social development, deep power to shape our path. That power depends on links to other major social institutions. Census family: stats canada: any configuration of parents (single, married, divorced, same- sex) and children living in the same dwelling . Post 1950"s: economy is not doing as well.