SOCIOL 2U06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Sociological Imagination

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Introduction to sociology of families and family trends sept 17th. Sociological imaginaion: individual experiences connected to a social context. Ability to see connecion between personal problem and broader social context. Poor support for working parents leading to marital conlict. Shiting gender ideas and unequal sharing of housework. Aging populaion means more widows and widowers living alone. More divorced people remaining on their own. Opportuniies to build life experiences outside of a relaionship. Lat (living apart together) relaionships are increasing. Men have higher rates of cohabitaion and remarriage than women, and do so faster than women. Changes in marriage, ferility, divorce, lone-parent families, and increasing diversity, including: Blended families (one or more spouses previously divorced) Many canadian children will live in more than one type of family before they grow up and leave home. Myth of 1950s family this family didn"t really exist.

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