Sociology 2235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Physical Abuse, Rape Culture, Dating Abuse
17 Apr 2021
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Occurs between any mix of partners, parents, children, siblings, elderly parents, adult children, etc. Violence in families not equally problematized; more visibility attached to violence of women + kids vs siblings + older family members. Cultural factors aid in keeping violent family conduct unproblematized. Violence against women/children ignored until the 1970s. No group is entirely free of violent family behaviour. High visibility of violence in our society suggests it is a pressing social problem. Myths of family violence serve as a social function & ignores the structural properties of family as a social institution that makes it our most violent institution. Strategy to protect image of harmonious family symbolically withdraw from family status from perpetrator and re-assign the event to the street/stranger. i. e. abuser termed as strange or other . Physical: slapping, chocking, punching, weapons, threatening with weapon, murder. Sexual: forcing someone into non-consensual sex through intimidation, force, threats. Emotional/verbal: threat to kill a person, children, family, etc.
