SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Fetus, Household Division, Extended Family
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Mar 19th lecture 21 family caron. For 1st year students who might be interested in minoring, majoring or specializing in. Family is not an easy concept to define. Families as relationships in which people live together with commitment, form an economic unit and care for any young, and consider their identity to be significantly attached to the group. Providing affection and companionship to family members. Historically family is equated solely with nuclear family, which is one or two parents and their dependent children, all of which live apart from other relatives. Traditional nuclear family => family in which wife works without pay in home, while husband works outside home for money (making him primary provider) Has been decrease in traditional nuclear families since 1940s and increasing prevalence of new family forms. Sociologists describe families as socially constructed to convey the idea that families are neither static, universal, nor biologically determined.