Sociology 2105A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nuclear Family, Social Class, Social Learning Theory
1 Dec 2014
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Family remains the most important institution for young people"s lives: young people are shaped by, and shape, their families, need to re-evaluate the traditional view that young people have a dependant relationship to the family. Increase in age of first marriage, decrease in marriages. Increase in age of first child, decrease in fertility rates. Family formation well into late twenties, early thirties. They may also stay in their parents homes longer. Or living with other young people: structural aging: changes in age composition of population, births, deaths, immigration and emigration are all considered, the median age of the canadian population is 39. 4, ramifications. This is a relatively high median since life expectancy is around 80, but it is because of the baby boomers. Young people are expected to pay care for seniors while providing for their own futures. Young people and the family families is being collected.
