SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: General Social Survey, Money Supply, Online Dating Service
16 Sep 2016
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Popular notions: sites of attachment emotional intensity and sentimentality reality, not always such spaces, many of us don"t have strong families, some families aren"t considered safe". Families vital for individuals within society and for state: families help with the ongoing. An adequate definition of family is impossible and undesirable. People assume the relation that a family is through marriage. Definitions vary situational (pension, school, social policies: kind of resources they get access to depends on the relationship/definition. Ideally understand as fluid: can change context dependent. 1981: data collected on common law unions. 2001: same sex common law first counted, previously married children included in census family, skip generation families. (grandparents living with grandchildren: a child & her/his lone parent living in 3 generation household. 2006: same sex married couples counted. 2011: same sex couples are 0. 8% of all couples in canada. Compared with 16. 5% married in 2006: inclusion of stepfamilies (2 types)
