Continuity and innovation : Canadian families in the new millennium

Continuity and Canadian Families in the New Millennium showcases how emerging and leading sociologists of the family explore the contemporary moments and experiences of Canadian families while investigating the past and extrapolating the implications of these moments and experiences for the future. While there is continuity in what remains important about family in Canada, there is simultaneous diversity and innovation in the definition and character of the meanings we assign to families and the practices and processes that we engage in. Meanings, practices, and processes significantly vary over time. Such variations can be attributed to differences in individual identities, interactions, and ideologies that are linked to gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, class, age, ability, and citizenship, as well as social-historical context. This exploration of Canadian families is based on both respected secondary research, along with primary, original scholarship by the contributors, who are actively engaged as sociologists of the family. Contributors take various approaches to explore the family as an institution (macro focus) or as an experience (micro focus), using a variety of theoretical lenses, and sharing stories of activism or experiential learning in doing so. Cover......Page 1 BRIEF CONTENTS......Page 9 CONTENTS......Page 11 PREFACE......Page 17 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 22 About the Contributors......Page 23 PART 1 FOUNDATIONS......Page 27 CHAPTER 1: Families as We Know and Have Known Them......Page 29 CHAPTER 2: Theorizing and Researching Family......Page 40 PART 2 FAMILY FORMATIONS AND LIVING ARRANGEMENTS......Page 55 CHAPTER 3: Seeking Intimacy, Forming Families......Page 57 CHAPTER 4: Living Arrangements......Page 74 PART 3 SURVIVING AND THRIVING......Page 89 CHAPTER 5: The Outcomes of Incomes: Family Insecurity or Security in Insecure Times......Page 91 CHAPTER 6: Managing Low Income in Families: The Importance of Institutions and Interactions......Page 106 PART 4 PATTERNS OF INDIGENEITY AND (IM)MIGRATION......Page 123 CHAPTER 7: Indigenous Families: Migration, Resistance, and Resilience......Page 125 CHAPTER 8: Immigrant Families and Canada’s Changing Ethno-racial Diversity......Page 139 PART 5 POWER AND RIGHTS......Page 155 CHAPTER 9: Paid and Unpaid Work: Power, Division, and Strategies......Page 157 CHAPTER 10: When Abuse Strikes at Home: Families and Violence......Page 173 CHAPTER 11: ( De)colonization, Racialization, Racism, and Canadian Families: Relearning through Storytelling about Lived Experience......Page 189 PART 6 CARE WORK AND SOCIAL SUPPORT......Page 207 CHAPTER 12: Families Caring for Children in the 21st Century......Page 209 CHAPTER 13: Caregiving and Support for Older Adults......Page 225 CHAPTER 14: Families Experiencing Dis/ability......Page 242 PART 7 DEEPENING CONTINUITY AND INNOVATION......Page 259 CHAPTER 15: “Doing Family”: Lenses, Patterns, and Futures......Page 261 INDEX......Page 277