SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Critical Theory, Nuclear Family, Civil Marriage Act
11 Nov 2018
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Family: a socially recognized group (usually joined by blood, marriage, or adoption) that forms an emotional connection and serves as an economic unit of society (little et al, p. 441). Family that you produced as an adult. Sociological definition of the family: margrit eichler (1990) A family includes a combination of the following: (but doesn"t need all of these) Functionalists: four functions of family: sexual, reproductive, educational, economic. Critical sociology: inequalities within the family, downloading of responsibilities on to the family. Symbolic interactionists: family roles are socially constructed, symbolic, historically and culturally specific. Mom jeans aren"t sexy bc mothers aren"t supposed to be sexy. The snaf ideology: the standard north-american family (snaf) Snaf: a term coined by dorothy smith (1999) Dictates that a nuclear family based on heterosexual procreation is taken-for-granted, normal and ideal. Childcare, grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning, emotional labour. The glass ceiling because women are overworked at home they can"t fulfill full potential as work.
