Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Household Division, Nuclear Family, Total Fertility Rate
9 Apr 2018
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Functionalist, conflict, and feminist accounts of family life. The impact of divorce on adults and children. Concern expressed by some about the decline of the nuclear family. Nuclear family: two married opposite-sex parents and their biological children. Traditional nuclear family: a nuclear family in which the husband works outside the home for money and the wife works without pay in the home. Family boundary ambiguities: family members are uncertain about who is in or out of their family/who is performing tasks or roles within the family system within the family system. Verticalization of the family structure: the increased number of living generations in a family, with fewer members within each generation. Some sociologists (mostly functionalists) view the erosion of the nuclear family as a disaster. Other sociologists disagree and argue that different family forms can improve the way people live. For any society to survive, its members must: The nuclear family is ideally suited to meet these challenges.
