SOCIOL 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Talcott Parsons, Friedrich Engels, Marxist Feminism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 1Z03
• Professor: Sandra Colavecchia

Document Summary

Definitions of families impact social policy and our personal decision-making. Heterosexual nuclear family; sexual division of labour. Critique: does not embrace diversity in families promotes women"s financial dependence on men does not address conflict, inequalities, and power differentials within families. Impact of industrialization: families were no longer units of production, but units of. Frederick engels: emergence of private property resulted in control over women"s. Ignored women"s unpaid labour in the home. Examining women"s lives and gender-based inequalities in the private sphere. Family: site of potential conflict and male privilege. Critique: concept of patriarchy is limited in explaining women"s agency in overcoming. First wave (early 1900s) and second wave feminisms (1960s-1970s) criticized for focusing on the concerns of privileged women inequalities. Walzer"s study of new parents found that women"s sense of self was transformed in the. Critique: de-emphasizes the impact of social structures on families. No separation between public and private sphere.