SOC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Emerging Adulthood And Early Adulthood, Male Privilege, Family Values
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Week 11: love and marriage: changing american families. Families through history: pre-industrial societies, family as economic unit with female labor crucial, marriages often arranged, often multigenerational households. Industrial revolution: traditional bread winner family structure, post industrial/ information age societies, diverse family homes, economic function primarily for children, toward gender convergence in family roles. The new contours of adulthood commitment: emerging adulthood (18-30, identity search, cohabitation, age of marriage: late 20s-early 30s, marriage is based on love, less durable than need/obligation.
