01:920:216 Study Guide - Final Guide: Nuclear Family, Identity Politics, Sorne
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Cult of domesticity: women given very limited gender specific roles, confined to domestic sphere. Women responsible keep morals/values intact, main agents of socialization. Changes: home/work spheres blurred, cod transformed, women headed households, single mothers, challenged nuclear family, etc. Perpetuation (modified way): parenting still responsibility of women, second shift, limit career, still considered primary agent socialization. Structural diversity model plurality of family, something socially constructed and evolving. Combination of marital/blood ties, heterosexual couples, production of own bio children (procreation), patriarchal authority structure, relatively fixed sexual division of labor, held together by emotional bonds. Ppl think maternal instinct exist b/c biological facts (e. g. breast feed, give birth, etc) Girls identify with mothers, socialized to develop attachment, emotional ties, intimate relation. Boys raised/socialized by mothers but reject feminine world, masculinity defined as opposite to. Feminine identity= relationality; masculine identity= deny relationship, instrumentality. Fatherhood more to do w/ instrumentality perform instrumental roles, materialistic responsibilities of family.
