SOC101Y1 Chapter 3: Sociology Lecture 23 Family

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4 Nov 2016
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Family is not an easy concept to define. Family a lot of the time may be associated with biological but there is more than that. States and institutions definition of family matters, there has been a transformation of what family really means recently. Families as relationships in which people live together with commitment, form an economic unit and care for any young and consider their identity to be significantly attached to the group. Providing affection and companionship to family members. Historically family equated solely with nuclear family which is one or two parents and their dependent children, all of which live apart from other relatives. Traditional nuclear family- family in which wife works without pay in home, while husband works outside home for money (making hi primary provider) Has been decrease in traditional nuclear families since 1940s and increasing prevalence of new family forms.

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