Sociology 1020 Lecture 6: Families
22 Nov 2016
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Concern expressed by some about the decline of the nuclear family: comprises two married opposite-sex parents and their biological children who share the same residence. 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. Family boundary ambiguities: refer to a state in which family members are uncertain about who is in or out of their family or who is performing tasks or roles within the family system. Verticalization of family structure: refers to the increased number of living generations in a daily, accompanied by fewer members within each generation. People feel the constraints of an ideal less than before. More likely to leave relationships they are not happy in. Past relationships have a way of introducing different values. Some sociologists, many of them functionalists, view the erosion of the nuclear family as a disaster.
