SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Intimate Partner Violence
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Most intense emotional experiences are bound up with our families. Nuclear family: cohabiting man and woman who maintain a socially approved sexual relationship and have at least one child. Traditional nuclear family: a nuclear family in which the wife works in the home without pay while the husband works outside the home for money. Makes man the primary provider and ultimate authority . View prevalence of the married-couple family and the of. Want to make it harder to get divorce. Want people place less emphasis on individual happiness at the. Nuclear family is everywhere based on marriage expense of family responsibility. Polygamy: expands horizontally by adding one or more spouses to the household. Majority are monogamous cannot afford to support several wives and many children. Extended family: expands vertically by adding another generation one or more of the spouses" parents to the household. Sexual regulation legitimate sexual activity is permitted orderly social life possible.
