Sociology 2235 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Nuclear Family, Voluntary Childlessness, Talcott Parsons

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Chapter 2 analyzing the familiar: definitions, approaches, and issues at the heart of. The dominant image of a family is one of loving, supportive, and caring relationships. For some, the family is a place of disappointment, pain, and abuse. In canada today, a diversity of family patterns reflect broad change in the conditions of daily life. Increase in divorce, lone-parent families, blended families, co-habitation/common law, same-sex couples (married, children), multi-generational households, and single living. Married couples with children living at home are now a majority of all canadian. Increase seen in young adults living with their parents during their 20s. The diversity of families found within canada makes it difficult to universally define. Variety of meanings to the term family depending on the context to which it is. The complexities, contradictions, and confusion surrounding the way family is used occur in part because families are so familiar and everyday definitions of family are taken for granted. used in.

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