SOCI 1002 Study Guide - Abortion Law, Social Enterprise, Fetus
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Sociology of knowledge of family: concepts are a combination of ideas and words. Mapping out the family: families as relationships in which people live together with commitment, form an economic unit and care for any young and consider their identity to be significantly attached to the group. Contemporary families are responsible for: regulating sexual activity, socializing children, providing affection and companionship to family members. Marital satisfaction: marital stability rooted more today in marital satisfaction than in usefulness of marriage. Increase in importance of marital satisfaction connected to autonomy of women (now freer to leave unhappy marriages). Which has increased because of: legalization of birth control measures. Impact: approximately 38% or marriages can now be expected to end in divorce (based on 2003 divorce rates) 1962: criminal code amendment allowed for therapeutic abortions . 1988: abortion law struck down on grounds it violated women"s rights to control her reproductive life.
