SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Online Dating Service, Nuclear Family
19 Mar 2016
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Soci 1f90 lecture 2, term 2 january 13. Popular notions: sites of attachment, emotional intensity and sentimentality. Reality: not always such spaces not all are characterized by deep intimacy. An adequate definition of family is impossible and undesirable. Survey (2010) presence of children key indicator to public in constituting. Definitions vary situational (pension, school, social policies) Ideally understood as fluid key theme of social understandings and situations. 2001 previously married children included in census family. 2001 skip-generation families (grandparent/s living with grandchild/ren) 2001 a child and her/his lone-parent living in 3 generation household. 2006 same-sex married couples counted legal in canada in 2005. 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. 2001 and 2011 only the gss measures lat couples: living apart together, 7. 4% of canadians aged 20 and older, associated with young adults (31% of lats are aged 20-24 years)
