SOSC 1185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Nuclear Family, Intersectionality, Social Reproduction
25 Aug 2016
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Significant in determining who constitutes a family and what is a legitimate relationship and family. Challenge the idea of a perfect family. Intertwined with the current political, ideological and economic system. Families change historically and culturally consider intersectionality. Class, sexual orientation, and classes shape and limit the experience of education. Kinship, residence, sexuality, childbearing and gender roles affects the family form and function. Challenge that family is part of the private sphere and doesn"t affect the public spheres. Marriage was an economic and political arrangement. Historical site of family economy and production in subsistence economy and exchange economy affected societies and individuals. Affected roles and opportunities in terms of status for men and women and education. Family was the building block of economy. Successfulness of the family determines survival and flourishment as a society. Exchange economy work which was necessary to survive, needed all of the family to contribute in the family economy.
