SOC214H1 Chapter : Summary of Readings for Nov 15
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Two transitions that have created social context for deinstitutionalization. Deinstitutionalization: a weakening of social norms that define partners behavior. Can be seen in increasing numbers of cohabiting unions and emergence of same-sex couples. Cherlin thought that remarriages lacked well-established social norms (such as when it is: individualized marriage in which emphasis on individual and personal choice, ernest burgess: from institutional marriage to the companionate marriage appropriate to discipline a child) But he argued that over time, as remarriage after divorce becomes more common, norms would emerge an remarriage would become institutionalized. He thought that parents and children in remarriages would become more like first marriages. But instead of remarriages becoming like first marriages, the opposite has occurred. Distinct roles of breadwinner and homemaker were fading as more married women enter the workforce. Hochschild s stalled revolution : changing division of labour. Marriage is no longer the universal setting for childbearing.
