SOCIOL 2PP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Sociological Imagination, C. Wright Mills, Lgbt Parenting
13 Sep 2018
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Economic support extended beyond biological kin: their definition of family extended to their entire community that helped them in surviving. Basics of food, clothing, shelter, caregiving, organization of sexuality. The labour is physical, emotional and mental that goes into surviving. Aging populations means more widows and widowers living alone. Opportunities to build life experiences outside of a relationship. Following divorce, men have higher rates of cohabitation and remarriage, than women and do so faster than women: why the increase in single- person households, contemporary trends. Changes in family, fertility, divorce, lone- parent families, and increasing diversity, including: Children will most likely live in more than one family structure before moving out as a grown up. Some say this signifies a decline in the family, but others say the family is not in crisis but family is simply transforming. Some use the 1950s as benchmark for families, and use that as a point of comparison: myth of the 1950"s family:
