NUR1 221 Lecture Notes - Stephanie Coontz, Fictive Kinship, Nuclear Family
11 Nov 2012
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Family definition: according to stephanie coontz: family originally meant band of slaves, murdock"s definition, social group characterized by common residence, economic co-operation and reproduction. Black families kinship, extended rule families, role reversal (slavery/racism) Middle-class nuclear family orientation child care (less child labour) Lower class women, children working in factories. Family forms diverged in working class to single person and single-parent households. Acceptance of youth and leisure fulfillment culture: christian europeans brought nuclear family structures to western canada, patriarchal traditions - men property owners and responsible for women and children. Life cycles of youth entering job, completing school, leaving home and marrying and setting up household varied in 20th century. Diverse family forms dropped and divorce dropped standard. Family life and gender roles predictable traditional form. Reality discrimination, cover up, child poverty, violence women, children. Families have always been fragile, vulnerable to rapid economic change and needful of economic and emotional support from beyond the nuclear family.
