SOC101Y1 Lecture : Families Families.
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Topic 4 families (week 4 lecture + ns chp 10 + siq chp 18-19) - nuclear family: -- composed of a cohabiting man and woman; - traditional nuclear family: -- on top of a nuclear family, the wife performs free domestic labor while the husband works outside for money. - based on a gendered division of labor. - this form of family is in decline. - traditional nuclear family is the ideal type of family; - working women are total disaster; stay-home mom is more socially accepted; - e. g. 1950s high school home economics textbook teaching girls how to be wives: Growing diversity of canadian families (from 1981 - 2006: non-marriage population increases from 16. 9% to 31. 3%, nuclear family (traditional) decreases from more than half to about one third. Functionalists argue five functions about family: sexual regulation. - make life orderly; prescribe sex regarding to when, where, with whom: economic cooperation.