SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Himalayas, Family Values, Mosuo
11 Jan 2017
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Defining families: fa(cid:373)ily: (cid:862)a so(cid:272)ially re(cid:272)og(cid:374)ized group (cid:894)usually joi(cid:374)ed (cid:271)y (cid:271)lood, (cid:373)arriage, or adoption) that forms an emotional connection and serves as an economic unit of society(cid:863) (cid:894)little et al, p. (cid:1008)(cid:1008)1(cid:895), family of orientation. Family into which you were born: family of procreation. Sociological definition of the family margrit eichler (1990: family is a small unit in society that fulfills a combination of the following (may or may not include all): Residence (may or may not live in same house) Is ideological: snaf: a term coined by dorothy smith (1999, dictates that a nuclear family based on heterosexual procreation is taken-for- granted, normal and ideal. The snaf ideology: the built environment, toys, disney movies, pronatalist state policies, holidays, a&w. Snaf as gendered: the labour of social reproduction. Snaf as racialized: white families are the family ideal. Indigenous families & colonialism: residential schools, sexual sterilization, the sixties scoop, children in care today.
