SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Infertility, Speed Dating, Social Forces

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5
• Professor: Nathan Innocente

Document Summary

Consist of cohabitaing man and women who maintain and socially approved sexual relaionship and have at least one child. A nuclear family in which the husband works outside the home for money and the wife works without pay in the home. Believed that the tradiional nuclear family no longer exist. This is because both man and women are equally spending ime ater their career, less focused towards family planning. Due to things like divorce, children are not living with both parents; thus distoring the tradiional family aspect o o. For any community or family to survive there must be cooperaion. The funcionalist approach states that families provide ive main funcions. Changes in the family: marriage rates decline while cohabitaion rate rise o o. The cohabitaing marriage because they are more liberal minded and will not mind separaing. More cohabitaing due to law change and easier to separate if common law over marriage.