SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9-10: Nuclear Family, Welfare Dependency, Child Poverty
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Soc100 test 3 study notes chapter 9 and 10. Nuclear family is based on marriage: marriage: traditionally defined, is a socially approved, presumably long-term sexual and economic union between a man and a woman. It involves reciprocal rights and obligations between spouses and between parents and children. Functions of the nuclear family: sexual regulation: nuclear family defines the boundaries within which legitimate sexual activity is permitted, thus making an orderly social life possible. Sex is not the primary motivation for marrying because it is readily available outside marriage: economic cooperation: "a man and a woman make an exceptionally efficient cooperating unit. " Marriage exists only when the economic and the sexual are united into one relationship, and this occurs only in marriage: reproduction: in pre-modern societies, children are an investment in the future. They do chores and when they become adults support their aging parents.
