SOC352H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Reproduction, Heteronormativity, Method Acting
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Lecture 2
For today
• 1.Overview for both social reproduction and emotional labour
• 2.How emotional labour/social reproduction is made invisible
• 3.Some of the ways this work is organized according to gender and race
Gender, the family and labour
• Families became more reliant on wages
• Men left the house to do waged labour and the work that was done inside the home became
unpaid labour
• In the early ages of the factory system women earned much less than men, there is also some
positions that aimed to
• Cult of domesticity: the place of women is in the women, where she is revered and wife and
mother
o The ultimate goal for women
• Women were strongly encouraged to stay at home
• Growth of trade unions
o Because women were paid lower, craft unions didn’t want women to join because then
male wages would be lower
o So the unions excluded women
• The increase of the industrialization in Canada changed the way the family was organized
• Rise of industrialization: relations of production split between the home and the factory
o Now people made goods to sell rather for their own subsistence
• Also the increase in technology the family becomes a system of support during this time of
uncertainty
• Ideological separation between public and private spheres
o The position in the private sphere was idealized as a goal for women
• Distinct roles in each
o Work outside the home would be seen as a distraction from their true role as mothers and
wives
o The idea of different spheres would only be for white women, because non-white men
did not have the same wages as white men
▪ So non-white women had to work because their husbands would not make
enough to support the family
Social Reproduction
• What is social reproduction?
o Social reproduction as regeneration or renewal
▪ Production outside of the home is characterized as part of the formal economy
▪ Work inside the home is not seen as work because it is non-waged
▪ A lot of the work done by women was not viewed as work because it was viewed
as a labour of love
▪ Both work inside and outside of the home was work in regards to production but
only work outside the home was considered work
o Social reproduction as ideological reinforcement
▪ Social reproduction reproduces dominant ideologies In society
▪ The family unit serves as a place where they learn these important ideologies
• Certain hegemonic ideals are learned ( eg. Heteronormativity)
• Dominant social ideals are being passed on in children who then grow
into adults
o Housework
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