SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Nuclear Family
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Pre-industrial families were large, often multigenerational, children valued for the labor they provided: social and economic units, marriages endured. Divorce was not the normative or easy. Early mortality compared to today (average life expectancy 45 years) Industrialization changed families: more families moved into the city, smaller, nuclear family model, gender roles began to evolve. Young ladies" attitudes toward remaining single, marriage, and family size began to evolve: life for children changed. Post-industrial families: the first generating paid for brains not brawn, more egalitarian attitudes toward marriage. Male can stay home and nurture children: children are seen as prized assets which we are too take care of past 18 years of age. There aren"t even expectations of summer jobs. Work is relegated until after schooling: greater acceptance of differences has redefined what a family. Family of orientation family you start out with. Family of procreation the one you create through relationships and child-bearing.
