SOCI 3660 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nuclear Family, Dua, Eurocentrism

• School: York University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 3660
• Professor: Amber Gazso

Document Summary

Historically situating where some of our ideas about family comes from. How can we conceptualize the family as being the default of the nuclear family. How do we tend to equate certain traits and activities with mothers and fathers. We are given the context from which to understand the newer approaches to family. With that understanding, we can see how some of the newer approaches to understanding family life is crucial. Family is what and who one makes it to be. These approaches outline some of the problems of the historical underpinnings of family. Aboriginal and racialized families and discourses of racial superiority: The state had a huge role in creating certain notions of family. There is a bit of a problem with feminism . ^-her concerns: race is ignored in the institution of nuclear family. The bulk of literature was written from a particular perspective: ethnocentric and eurocentric.