SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Common-Law Marriage, Polyamory, Economic Union
31 Oct 2018
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In practice, it is a combination of houses. Many families only fit into a subset of definitions. There is an association with the idea of family. Formal relationship between two or more people. Often culturally bound to ideas of family. Neither a strict criterion for nor result of family formation. Family is a central concern for demographers. Family form affects patterns of fertility and migration. Norms and culture are deeply influenced by family. Legal, economic and other social factors both influence and are influenced by family. Developmental paradigm, reading history sideways and family change (arland thornton) Misreading of cross culture data influenced scholarship on family change for centuries. Developmental paradigm led to reading history sideways. Developmental idealism affected changes in family forms. The conclusions of developmental paradigm led to widespread adoption of developmental idealism. Developmental idealism pushed specific forms of family change world wide. Ways of understanding societies are progressing along a set developmental path.
