SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Household Division, Extended Family, Fetus
26 Apr 2016
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Wednesday, march 30, 2016 soc mapping out the family. Families as relationships in which people live together with commitment, form an economic unit and care for the young. Contemporary family: regulating sexual activity, socializing children, providing affection, companionship and notions of trust, support to fam members. Has been decreased since 1940s and increasing prevalence of new family forms. Social construction of family: sociologists describe families as socially constructed to covey the idea that families are neither static, universal, nor biologically determined. Determined by communities and surroundings and society. Exact shape keeps changing and evolving over time: support for institution of marriage and traditional gender roles begins to erode because of in uence of. Expansion of postsecondary institutions and service sector employment: married-couple families, although declining, remain the most common family form in canada. Results from pursuit of educational and career goals- especially women attainting economic security which allows them to live alone: alertly, canadians increasing decide to.
