SOCI-100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Patrilineality, Conflict Theories, Coparenting
25 Apr 2018
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Canadian families: past, present, and future: families are the utmost importance in determining who we are, creating frameworks on which our lives are built. Families are at the core of our socialization experiences throughout our lives. What is a family: the term family is used so regularly we often take it for granted. Information describing the demographic characteristics of canadian families in drawn from census data. A census family is composed of married or common-law couple, with or without children (biological or adopted), or a lone parent living with at least one child, in the same dwelling. He defined a family as a social group characterized by common residence, economic cooperation, and reproduction. Power conceptualizes such families as more than human families : defining family on the basis of love offers the most flexibility, but that strength is also a weakness
