SA 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Nuclear Family, Urban Design, Parental Leave

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 335
• Professor: Wendy Chan

Document Summary

The importance of the family: families are changing- is it in crisis, a key source for the establishment of gender relations, they serve basic social and economic roles that affect the standards of living and well-being of. It is central to the reproduction of social life and to gender identity their members. Important for maintaining culture and languages: buffer against isolation and loneliness. Provides relationships people need: most contentious and emotional subjects. Marriage and the canadian family: families more diverse-blended families, same-sex couples marrying, inter-religious unions, inter- racial unions, marriage remains an important milestone with a cultural script that is highly gendered, marriage is better for men than women. Trends in marriage and the canadian family: fewer people marrying, many marrying later, common law unions increasing, same sex marriage increasing, nuclear family not the norm, common law and lone parent families increasing.