SOCI 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Talcott Parsons, Nuclear Family, Social Reproduction
29 Aug 2016
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A couple may be of the same gender. Nuclear family: adult male & female and offspring. Women expressive role: responsible for emotional well being of the family member and the socialization of children. Men instrumental role: responsible for paid labour outside of the home. Families remain primary sites for the continued subordination of women. Family forms are both time and place specific. Familial ideology that proposes one family model privileges men and subordinates women. Challenge the ideology that the family is a "private" sphere. Reject assertion that men"s and women"s roles within the families are a natural outcome of biological difference. Monolithic bias one ideal type of family is considered "normal" Instead we should focus on what families do. Socialization emotional relationships,residence, economics sexuality and reproduction. Neoliberalism: from citizen model to consumer model. Some history of public education in canada. The organization of certain kinds of knowledge that are considered crucial and durable than last over time.
