SOC246H1 Lecture Notes - Alvin Ward Gouldner, Ibm 7070, 18 Months
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Week 7 class notes: aging and families: introduction aging and families. The family, as a fundamental social institution, influences daily life and life chances through the life course. mcpherson and wister (2008), pg. Socialization and care in early life: religious customs, ethnic food you eat, school you go to. Coordinating care in later life: who takes care of parents afterwards. A context for many major life transitions: entering long-term relationship, becoming parents, family transitions are some of the most important turning points. Families are unique as social institutions in that they are fundamentally age-integrat- ive- families by their definition are fundamentally link together multiple generations of people. Compositional definitions: relatively narrow, legal systems rely on these defini- tions and they often change over time e. g. , the canada census definition of family: All members of a particular census family live in the same dwelling. A couple may be of opposite or same sex.
