SOC246H1 Lecture Notes - Alvin Ward Gouldner, Ibm 7070, 18 Months
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Week 7 class notes: aging and families: introduction aging and families. The family, as a fundamental social institution, influences daily life and life chances through the life course. Families are unique as social institutions in that they are fundamentally age-integrative. Compositional definitions e. g. , the canada census definition of family: All members of a particular census family live in the same dwelling. A couple may be of opposite or same sex. Children may be children by birth, marriage or adoption regardless of their age or marital status as long as they live in the dwelling and do not have their own spouse or child living in the dwelling. Grandchildren living with their grandparent(s) but with no parents present also constitute a census family. (http://www. statcan. gc. ca/concepts/definitions/cfamily-rfamille-eng. htm) Social scientists often see clear limitations of a narrow compositional idea of families: functional definitions e. g. , a unit of intimate, transacting, and interdependent persons. Who share some values, goals, resources for decisions and .
