SOC 603 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Jessie Bernard, Nuclear Family, Concubinage
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Gender at the heart of the home o. Canadians have been concerned about the apparently uncertain fate of the family in the modern world o. If the family feels like one of the most fragile of social institutions, it is also perhaps among the most resilient: what we call "traditional" may m be a very recent construction o. The "workplace and family are deeply interconnected; the "family wage" it organizes family life as well as economic life, expressing an idealized view of what the family is and should be. A brief history of the canadian (and north american) family: aboriginal families were different in many ways from the "ideal" family structures imagined by colonizing europeans. Nuclear families were import ant everywhere, as they were to europeans. But overlapping with nuclear and extended family structures were clan structures that also provided a concept of "family ties" Shared emphasis on extended families and clan in their definition of kinship.
