SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Nuclear Family, Spurious Relationship
18 Apr 2016
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The family is commonly one of the most gendered institutions o o. Sociologists studying the family are primarily interested in (a) how families are. Location of gender inequalities structured (b) their socializing effects (c) how they are transforming (d) the causes of transformations and (e) the effects of familial transformations. Have to define the term, difficult to define, because it"s so different. Difficult to constitute what a family was, everyone has a different view of what a family is o o. In canada, one common view of the family is the tnf o. Three defining elements: o (1) marriage: family based on a marriage, male and female, heterosexual relationship (2) children: biological offspring are part of the family. Until they start their own families (1) and (2) are part of the nuclear family (for the textbook) (3) roles: traditional roles. Dominance of tnf is a thing of the past. Canada today: great diversity of family structures o o.
