SOCI 371 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Nationstates, Social Inequality, Natureserve
12 Jan 2018
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Family values are evocative of the imagined traditional family. Heterosexual, married, children, father head of the family, stay-at-home wife. The traditional family is not biologically based, but organized around government structures such as marriage. Political groups use the ideological nature of family to advance their goals as a result. Intersectionality seeks to explore how gender, race, class and nationality intersect and affect each other. The traditional family promotes equality and the support of all of its members, but it is structured as a hierarchy. The hierarchical structure of the family is used to legitimize the hierarchies that exist in many social institutions. Families socialize their members into a set of family values" while also laying the foundation for many social hierarchies. Family values work to naturalize age, gender and sexuality related hierarchies. In a family, the male assumes leadership, which establishes masculinity as a source of authority, reflected in the larger american society.
