SOCA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Child Poverty, Noncustodial Parent, Fetus
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Social-structural arrangement s are tight to the degree they demand conformity to norms. In the course of a generation, the world of canadian families changed from structurally tight to structurally loose: social expectations about family life shifted from impositions that required conformity to suggestions that required interpretation. Our most intense emotional experiences are bound up with our families. We love, hate, protect, hurt, express generosity toward, and envy nobody as much as our parents, siblings, children, and mates. Nuclear family: consists of a cohabiting man and women who maintain a socially approved sexual relationship and have at least one child. When we speak about the decline in family they are referring to nuclear families. Traditional nuclear family: a nuclear family in which the husband works outside the home for money and the wife works without pay in the home. Functionalist sociologists view the decreasing prevalence of the married-couple family as an absolute disaster.
