SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Canada Women'S National Soccer Team, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Parental Leave
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Chapter 12: families to human nature : commonsense understandings of family problems as personal, private, and attributable, sexuality, marriage, parenthood, housework and the gendered division of labor: separation of tasks men and women regularly do. Exploring the familiar: families in western society today. Myths about family idealized image of family life in 1950s was beamed into home across country- compared to nowadays, the family seems to be disintegrating. Ignores social structure, misses the most important insight of sociology- organization of various aspects of society puts constraints on and creates opportunities for individuals to individual motivation. Social structure generates powerful social forces that cannot be reduced: e. g. 19th century potter and factory owner josiah wedgwood- he was disturbed by practice of child labor, but he was forced to use children in his own factory to keep with competition. Structural functionalism: talcott parsons and structural functionalism in post-wwi sociology, problems: just because an institution performs a social function, no reason to assume.
