SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Online Dating Service, Nuclear Family, Feminist Theory
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There are family concerns that are weakening and changing the family ties. * includes concerns over shifts or changes in the makeup of the family. Family is the main factors for remaining the stability. Nuclear family (main family): man work outside, women work inside and have one child. Key features: heteronormative (spouse that they love in the opposite sex), monogamous (one wife and one husband), child-rearing, and spanning two generations. A more narrow definition is a traditional nuclear family when the man works outside the family unit for wages and women engages in unpaid labor within the home. Key features: the pattern of nuclear family and male-dominated are the same. By 2006 fewer than 39 percent of canadian families were nuclear (p. 381) However, nuclear family is still the considered the normative ideal and there are often social penalties when engaged on an alternate family form.
