POLI 3P71 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Theocracy, Social Capital, Masculinity
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A article on family life + politics the article asks in particular take political notions of family and apply them to family. The article is really interesting cuz it starts from a personal experience. Other experiences help him understand his own experiences. He talks about 3 kinds of family relationships of structure: democratic, authoritarian, hierarchical structure. Talks about the importance of political sphere and relationships in the household. In the household there is a hierarchal structure. At the top there is the father and he is the top of the household and regulates the mothers and the relationship between the kinds and the father and the slaves in the house. Care and concern, hierarchal ranking - they wants to regulate the virtues that they have to regulate in the household. They want to develop virtues of the children, they will grow up to know how to raise a family. The virtues of the male, they have to rule the household.