Lecture 3

Question 1

What does the crude marriage rate in Canada show?

Answer 1

Decline

Question 2

Why the change in the crude marriage rate?

Answer 2

• Change in push factors
• Change in pull factors
• Change in traditional religious beliefs,
• Change in values : ex. a societal disapproval of sex outside marriage,
• Change in gender roles and expectations,
• Changes in financial necessity

Question 3

In Us in Canadian (recent history) when were marriage rates high and low?

Answer 3

Low in great depression
(Stabilized in 40s)
Boom with return of soldiers
- Baby boom

Since the 70’s decline

Question 4

What happened when divorce act reform?

Answer 4

After this = divorce rates spiked

but general decline since

Question 5

Why is Quebec different from rest of canada on marriage?

Answer 5

Low marriage rate = lot of common law

• Why? Quiet revolution
  Turned away from catholic church in 60’s

Question 6

View on marriage using sociological imagination?

Answer 6

Marriage trends change with norms and economic factors

Individual life stories are deeply connected with the historical and cultural patterns of the society in which we live

Question 6

What does Family reflect:

Answer 6

Power relations:
between generations and
between spouses,
and regulations and
practices of sexuality,
marital and nonmarital