[SOCY 352] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 53 pages long Study Guide!
29 Nov 2016
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Socy 352 lecture # 2 (week 1) Today"s outline: changing definitions of family: Structural/compositional vs. process-based perspectives of family: theoretical perspective: Trends related to family (census data: more families than ever in canada, increase in marriages and common-law families, increase in counted same-sex couples, prolonged youth, later marriages, fewer children. Why the changing trends: war, global events, education, immigrations, financial crisis (2008) Variation in family form: we can distinguish between. Simple (all kids are from one parent) vs. complex (both partners bring kids and another kids from their marriage) Transnational families (across borders and maintain family practices) vs. multi-local (temporarily living in different location) Satellite/parachute family (leaves kid/spouse in a country and works in another) Changing definitions of family: murdock (1949): a social group characterized by common residence, economic co-operation and reproduction. Socialization of children; social control of members; Competing perspective on family: structural/compositional perspective:
