SOSC 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Family Values, Rape Culture, Nuclear Family

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11 Apr 2013
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Thesis: family values have changed during the past three decades in terms of equal rights for women in the workforce, however, our society still has a long way to go before family values truly revolutionize. Nuclear family; needs of the family override individual needs. Men go to work, they are the soul providers for the family. Women have to take care of the children and any housework. Women were expected to be the caregiver and were seen best to raise them. Women not to be working outside of family duties (no job/career: underlying patriarchal ideology that women are stupid role of the mother was romanized ; idealized to becoming the loving mother and social butterfly. Her job as a wife includes providing sexual and psychological needs for her husband. Man and woman are equal in power where woman could make decision too. Man and woman could have same education level and freedom of speech.