SOCIOL 2PP3 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Cohabitation, Canada, Secularism

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SOCIOL 2PP3
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
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Defining Families
Diversity, choice, fluidity in different aspects of private life and close relations.
Definitions of families and marriage has changed
Social pressure to pursue the conventional/ traditional/ nuclear family life (heterosexual relationship,
married with children)
Relationship status.
More visibility of polyamorous relationships
Living arrangements.
Partners sharing a household or choosing to live in separate households
Family structure
Childbearing and parenting
Adoption
Different kinds of surrogacy
Sperm donors
IVF - in vitro fertilization
Embryos in storage to donate to others in need, wanting to adopt them - genetic siblings are being
raised in different families because of this
Sexual orientation, sexuality, and sexual relationships
Fluidity in sexual orientation and sexual relationships
Voluntarily child-less couples
Non-monogamous relationships
Emotional intimacy
Growing numbers of people not partnering
Becoming normative for people to experience more numerous intimate relationships , living
arrangements and family reconfiguration due to:
Social changes
People moving away from religion
Increasing secularism - people being less traditional
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Economic changes
Precarious employment affecting people’s decisions in relationships. Due to the high cost of living,
couples can’t afford living with their partner, people are living with their parents longer.
Political changes
Shift away from government and state support (neoliberal economic policy)
Legal changes
Family law, such as divorce or when couples are living in the household and break-up
LGBTQ relationships and child-bearing
Technological changes
People meeting online
Online communication
People ending their relationships online ex. ghosting
State policy relies on specific definitions of family that have historically excluded many families
While the Canadian government has adopted more inclusive definitions of family vestiges still
remain of non-inclusive definitions of family
2016 - if you were a same-sex parent but not biologically connected to your child, you would need to
legally adopt the child.
2017 - change to child support law to give adult child with disabilities access to parental cash
Tax policy
ex. Income splitting - 2015
One parent in paid employment, making an income (highest tax bracket - the more you make, the
higher your taxes), the other parent not in paid employment (stay-at-home parent).
Harper’s government only gave a tax benefit to families where one parent stayed at home and only
one parent is in in paid employment.
This is income inequality because with out a high income from either parent, both parents must
work.
Trudeau then eliminated income splitting.
Assumptions of economic support: OSAP, filial responsibly laws, social assistance and cohabiting
couples
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Document Summary

Defining families: diversity, choice, fluidity in different aspects of private life and close relations. Social pressure to pursue the conventional/ traditional/ nuclear family life (heterosexual relationship, married with children: relationship status. More visibility of polyamorous relationships: living arrangements. Partners sharing a household or choosing to live in separate households: family structure, childbearing and parenting. Embryos in storage to donate to others in need, wanting to adopt them - genetic siblings are being raised in different families because of this: sexual orientation, sexuality, and sexual relationships. Growing numbers of people not partnering: becoming normative for people to experience more numerous intimate relationships , living arrangements and family reconfiguration due to, social changes. Increasing secularism - people being less traditional: economic changes. Due to the high cost of living, couples can"t afford living with their partner, people are living with their parents longer: political changes. Shift away from government and state support (neoliberal economic policy: legal changes.

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