SOC352H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Reproduction, Erving Goffman, Occupational Hazard
7 May 2018
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SOC352 LEC
01/11/2018
Uncovering Social Reproduction and Emotional Labour
Gender, the family, and labour
• Rise of industrialization: relations of production split between the home and the
factory
• Ideological separation between public and private spheres
• Distinct roles in each
• Prior to industrialization, all members of family contribute to household economy (for
example, farming)
• In Canada, artisans would make things to sell
• Settlements = goods and services imported here
• Families became more dependent on wages, men worked outside the home
• Cult of domesticity = women’s place is the home
• Growth of trade unions = didn’t want wages of women to lower men’s, include women
so ALL wages can stay high
• Women didn’t have same protection in factories as men
• End of 19th century = production in factories was main source of production
• First half of 20th century = jobs limited and resistance to women working outside the
home, concern that femininity and moral standards and “true calling as mothers” would
be impacted
• Non-white men did not have access to same wage ideal as white men = non-white women
had to work outside home
• Women erased from public sphere and private reinforced (realized, moral position)
Social Reproduction
• What is social reproduction?
o Social reproduction as regeneration
o Social reproduction as ideological reinforcement
o Housework
• 2 MAIN THINGS
1. Renewal or regeneration
- production outside the home is characterized as formal economy
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