LING 1000 Lecture 4: cfr 4

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1000
• Professor: Rosario Gomez

Document Summary

Couple and family relationships lecture 4 jan 18. *video shown- cbc: generation boomerang- talking about how most young adults move back home and live with their parents until much later on than previously- in canada more than half. 20-29 year olds still live with their parents (doubled)* Areas of concentration in family research: social dynamics. Looking at how change can be measured across points in time. Identity and change are central to developing a dynamic theory - examine how it changes. Does not look at unique events or changes - want analysis to be generalizable. Developing a theory of change to one family does not help you predict other families reactions to structural changes such as birth, death, marriage and divorce: events. Individuals" lives are experienced as events ex. birth, graduation, wedding, death. Actual date is not important - the event contains the information about our lives. Most life events are considered normative : stage.