SOC100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Interracial Marriage, Thomas Robert Malthus, Monogamy
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The family: any social unit, or set of social relations, that does what families are popularly imagined to do, strange definition who is imagining; what is popularly imagined can change overtime (families can change overtime) What counts: census canada tracks demographic trends how the population changes overtime (ex. What defines the social family: dimensions (specifiable aspects of a concept, dependency long-term commitments between all members. The family: different levels of adaptability and cohesiveness; varies how they can overcome problems and change; can determine how long families can overcome the change, compared to others that fall apart easily, ex. The changing canadian family: divorce, age at first marriage (delayed marriage, co-habitation, less conventional gender norms, rise in single-parent households, life expectancy, inter-racial marriage, family size (larger families result in smaller socioeconomic status concepts. Thomas malthus and charles darwin talk about: economic changes, immigration.
