SOC101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Nuclear Family, Exogamy, Sixties Scoop
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Patrilineal: determining kinship along the male line. Matrilineal: determining kinship along the female line. Extended family: relatives beyond nuclear family. Simply household: unrelated adults with or without children. Complex household: two or more related adults but not married. Crude marriage rate: number of marriages per 1000 people is decreasing, number of common law unions rising. More divorces overall, however divorce rate is falling. Replacement rate: the rate at which children must be born to maintain the current population. This has dropped; $ of families with children = below replacement rate. Cluttered nest: increase in adult children living with their parents. Quebec: rapid modernization, highest divorce rate, lowest marriage rate, approval for pre + extramarital sex, same sex marriage, redefining family. Distinctive roles of the husband and wife that result from the division of labour in the family. One partner doing paid work the other housework/caring for children. Both partners working outside the home and sharing in house work.
