SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Talcott Parsons, Marxist Feminism, Nuclear Family
3 Oct 2017
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Heterosexual nuclear family; sexual division of labour - talcott parsons sees this as being the most functional/ best form of a family. Criticisms are it doesn"t embrace diverse families and promotes women nancial dependence on men, and patriarchy. Impact of industrialization: families were no longer units of production (pre-industrial was small-scale shops where families would produce goods in their home), but units of consumption (would begin buying from the larger companies when industrialization became). There was then new ideology of the home as being a haven separate from the workplace (mostly for the men because women still did domestic work while the male worked in factory for a wage). As private property emerged, the nuclear family emerged as well. Needed to ensure wealth was given to biological o -spring, women had to remain faithful. Meg luxton studying women"s unpaid labour book. Feminist theory examines women"s lives and gender based inequalities in the private sphere.
