SOCIOL 2PP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Talcott Parsons, Nuclear Family, Feminist Theory
25 Sep 2018
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Emile durkheim: sf late 19th c, nuclear family is most ideal because the sexual division of labour is functional for families and society. Talcott parsons: sf 1950, nuclear family most ideal, strict sexual division of labour needed, male breadwinner, regulating sex, emotional work/support, expressive vs instrumental role. Bronis aw malinowski: sf late 19th c, nuclear family is universal, men and women and very different. Conflict theory: karl marx, advocate for social change: socialism, conflict scholars have focused on how industrialization changed family life, critiqued of how conflict theory understands family and only focus on class. Industrialization: private vs public spheres of family - separate, macro, economic mode of production, agriculture, materialism shapes ideology (what we have/don"t have, doesn"t look at unpaid labour, e. g. childcare. Symbolic interactionism: micro interactions, we actively create society/family through interactions, rituals, and symbols, subjectivity of the world, critique, don"t consider impact of social structures, e social policy.
