SOCWORK 3E03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: General Electric Genx
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Different stages that members of family go thru, tasks they need to do to move thru the stages. Task = get an education, start a career, leave home: unattached young adult, getting married. Task = establish strong partner communication, con ict resolution, negotiate time w/ extended fam, money issues. Task = division of labour (what each partner does), personal time v family time. Task = needs of children, advancing career, sending children out, couple needs to re-negotiate time together, care-giving for older parents: older life. Does shine a light on many issues that do happen in this context. A group of ppl who experience the same social events/changes within a given culture. Ex shifting de nitions of the family in my generation means changes in speci c cohorts of ppl. Different cohorts can experience same social changes but respond in different ways. Ex gen-y and gen-x both experienced the internet. But, the older generation is often less comfortable with technology.