SOCB47H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Adultism, Sexual Sterilization Act Of Alberta, Nellie Mcclung
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How we do we define families: biological kinship, love and respect, emotional relationships. How are definitions of families and their members normalized: culture. How does the labor market affect families (from last week): unsteady income, access to resources. How do we imagine children in society: future generation of carrying what we pass on, have to be nurtured to develop into adults, passing down of culture, norms, morals, values, ideologies. Scholars, including grekul, tie sterilization campaigns to eugenics. What is eugenics: promoting a certain race, tied to social darwinism. Theory that species who weren t fit enough to compete in the world would die off. Ideas of biological determinism tied to scientific racism (like begets like) 1883: francis galton coined eugenics to refer to good breeding . Emphasis in producing fit members of society. Ideas of who was unfit influences b social relations at the time: relied on ideas of gender, race, class and age.
