SOCIOL 2U06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stepfamily, Nuclear Family, Credentialism And Educational Inflation
31 Oct 2013
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Choices: the social landscape of previous generations, ala meryl streep, entailed a much narrower set of choices about how their lives can unfold. Pressures of credentialism means that many young women today are delaying children. A greater number of canadians are opting to live alone w/o relationship or family. Same sex, mixed race, mixed faith, cohabitation. Voluntarily single parents: this kind of diversity offers us greater opportunity and creates a lot of uncertainty/challenges especially those raised traditionally. Given rise to a lot of public debate over the definition of family. Debate about the role of gov"t in family life. They inform the personal decisions we make. The gov"t"s def impacts who is impacted by policy. Provides financial benefits to a person to take care of a family member who is gravely ill. Who is included: your child or the child of your spouse or common-law partner (of at least one year, your wife/husband or common-law partner.
