SOCIOL 2U06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Nuclear Family, Child Benefit, Heterosexuality
6 Oct 2016
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Discourses (bodies of knowledge communicated by expert, help define truth, shapes social policy) reinforced heterosexuality as normal and dominant. If anything besides from heterosexuality is not shown then we are denied our rights to know about ourselves. Only shown heterosexuality, people feel forced to accept it & conform. People will try to fit in (even gay & lesbians) to stay safe against violence. Economic prosperity which gave men good jobs (breadwinners) Emotional traumatized (emotional traumatized due to war) In 1950+: more children, more quickly, young mothers under 25, 3+ children. The age of marriage drops (younger people marrying) Marriage rate between girls aged 15-19 doubled. Gap in education between women and men widened (gender inequality) Proportion of people that never married dropped. Suburb expansion, more housing, people getting big pay-checks. Family allowance: government gives cash to mothers with kids under the age of 16. Reinforced by popular culture, consumerism, economic prosperity, fear of.
