SOCB49H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sociology Of The Family, Emotional Labor, Sexual Orientation
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Parenting is one of the essential components of reproductive labor: sustaining and expanding existing labor and social relations, reproducing new generations of laborers/workers through child bearing and rearing. Converting and mobilizing existing resources. , including physical and emotional labor and social relations for childrearing. Research periods: 1992-1994, 1995-1998 location and sites, toronto, through open calls, parenting workshops, etc. Informants: sexual orientation, 40 heterosexual couples, class background, middle and working class, ethnicity; primarily white couples. Data collection: during pregnancy, the end of first 2 (cid:373)o(cid:374)ths after the (cid:271)a(cid:271)(cid:455)"s (cid:271)or(cid:374, when the baby turns one. Positioning parenthood in the context of reproductive labor. Entails physical and emotional labor that links to the individual subject whether mother or father; who they are, how they perceive themselves and how they work together. Me(cid:374)"s i(cid:374)(cid:272)reasi(cid:374)g i(cid:374)(cid:448)ol(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t i(cid:374) reprodu(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e la(cid:271)or; their involvement is subject to negotiate behaviour. Contradictions in motherhood: women and men are changed by parenthood differently. Fulfilling fatherhood as a hands on caretaker.
