SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Individualism, Harlequin Enterprises, Anna Nicole Smith
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Lectures on final: sexuality, stratification, families, health. Functionalist tends to see the families too optimistically. They don"t see them paradoxically as it can be nice and nasty. Japan has been pretty close to nuclear family. But in west, it is mostly split up. In 1917 20% japanese women have not married by age of 30. Most married before: today it"s around 40% of japanese women have not married by age of 30. University graduate women usually go through life solo; some men go for matriarchy which usually leads to marriage settlements. Tiger wood"s marriage settlement -> wife left him & demanded bigger price in return. Men could be looking for support payments after the division of all property & asserts with his wife. In modern society, we become more self centered (more me ) and thus less inclined to looking at marriage. Family not only reproduces human being but produces equality.
