SOC275H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Jessie Bernard, Nuclear Family, Wage Labour
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Soc275h5 lecture 4: the gendered family: gender at the heart of home. We are losing the tradiional" nuclear family, heterosexual family, middle-class family, less- divorce or no divorce family. The nuclear family in the 1950s is in fact not tradiional, but is a paricular family form in the historical period in north america. Although we think of the family as a private sphere apart from the compeiive world of the economic and poliical life, the family has never been a world apart. The workplace and family are deeply interconnected; the family wage organizes family as well as economic life, expressing an idealized view of what the family is and should be. Pre-contact: combinaion of nuclear families with extended family and clan structures; gender relaions were diferent. Aboriginal families shared an emphasis on extended family and clan in their deiniion of kinship (relaionship). Many aboriginal groups were egalitarian and pracices gender complementarity.
