SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: General Social Survey, Cultural Reproduction, Online Dating Service
28 Feb 2016
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Popular notions: sites of attachment, emotional intensity and sentimentality. Key question: how have our families changed in structure and practice. Survey (2010)- presence of children key indicator in constituting family status. An adequate definition of family is impossible and undesirable. Definitions vary- situational (pension, school, social policies) 2001: previously married children included in census family. 2001: a child & her/his lone parent living in 3 generation household. 2011: same-sex couples are 0. 8% of all couples in canada: 32. 5% are married, 67. 5% are common law, compared with 16. 5% married in 2006, simple- all children are the biological or adopted children of one and only one. 2011: inclusion of stepfamilies (2 types) married spouse or common-law partner: complex stepfamily- At least one child of both parents and at least one child of only one parent. At least one child of both parents and at least one child of each parent.
