SOCIOL 1C03 Lecture 2: & 3
23 Jan 2019
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The government uses specific definitions of family in creating social policy. Useful in determining eligibility criteria in enacting policy. Historically, legislation precluded lgbt couples from security by the state- created within the heterosexual, conventional framework of marriage and families. Sociologists underwent a paradigm shift of adopting more inclusive language. Paid more attention to the intersections of paid and unpaid labour. Unpaid labour: encompasses mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of labour ie. grocery shopping example. Families are socially constructed and have changed over time and place. Challenged the normative assumption of co-residence that historically existed ie. transnational families, children raised in separate homes, latg (living together apart couples) Manifested through contemporary analysis of young and old couples- mainly as a strategy for financial stability for older couples. Indian act of 1876 denied indian status to indigenous women who married non status indigenous men. This had repercussions in all dimensions of their lives ie. taxation, social life etc.
