SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Telling Stories
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Family as a social institution (i) macro, structural changes. Allow individual families to have a more diverse lifestyle, maintain their own desirable lifestyle. Family as a social institution (ii) micro practices and activities. In-class discussion: applying the concept staging of everyday family life . Identifying three macro-micro intersections in everyday family life; Women younger than men in first marriage. Women got married younger in 1910 and then in 1960 (20s,30s,40s cold war) 1830 1840 first cold war: women had kids at ages 27 41 = 14 year difference, empty nest they were 61, widowed at 58 (before their children turned. Allows us to envision what is going on in the family. Bigger family = mother spent long time raising kids, will have many aunts/uncles. Shows 2 trends: fertility rate decreases with age, shift in peak. Highest level when women has kids shifts: women delay child baring. Women age group drops from 37% down to 22% for cold war of 1940.
