SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Talcott Parsons, Friedrich Engels, Sociological Theory
20 Aug 2013
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Key issues: definitions of families and marriage and implication, application of four sociological paradigms, social history of families, contemporary trends, social policy. Defining families about how we live our lives: definitions of family shape government. Social policy and inform the decisions we make. Definitions and social policy: policies that assume financial support (eg. filial responsibility laws, policies can deter relationship formation, defining marriage. A sociological perspective: families are socially constructed and change over time and place. Functionalism: heterosexual nuclear family; sexual divisional of labour, husbands: instrumental role, wives: expressive role. Impact of industrialization: families were no longer units of production, but units of consumptions: frederick engels: emergence of private property resulted in control over women"s fidelity. Feminism: meg luxton: studying women"s unpaid labour, oakley: house work, devault: feeding the family, walter: thinking about the baby (family life, develop the concept of patriarchy. Symbolic interactionalism: how we actively create family, weddings with rings and gowns.
