CSCT 2Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Golden Rule, Frans De Waal, Bakers Square

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
• Course: CSCT 2Z03
• Professor: Susie O' Brien

Document Summary

Tied with myths and values that are reproduced through cultures and histories. The family is an institution where dominant social conventions get reproduced and contested. It is also a mythological ideal that embodies a set of unstable, historically specific and beliefs and values. Family becomes an institution for reproducing common wisdom of what is culturally and socially accepted and expected. The family embodies a set of myths and values that play out in the form of material relations. They are part of a nuclear family where the pig puppet has no particular role, and the wolves are excluded. The dinner table has become racial-> movies like the one above have challenged this. Gay marriage legalized in the us-> june 26 2015. > a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household. > all the descendants of a common ancestor. > a designed to be suitable for children as well as adults.