SOCY 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Marxist Feminism, Family Therapy, Symbolic Interactionism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 352
• Professor: W.Andrew Silver

Document Summary

Socy 352 lecture # 3 (week 2) Last time: changing definitions of family: Structural/compositional vs. process-based perspectives of family: theoretical perspective: (focus on ) Physical maintenance and care of group members; Addition of new members through procreation or adoption; Production, consumption of goods and services; and. Perspectives on family: structural/compositional: who makes up the/your family, process-based: performing family, activities, practices. Origin of the family, private property and the state (1884): the important this in marxists approach is understand inequality, functionalist argue that inequality is a natural. Production-social reproduction: the nuclear family in historical context. 2016: the third-wave feminism was not just about gender; it also included class, race, and socioeconomic status. Feminisms: marxist feminism: we can achieve gender equality by revolution and changing the mode of productions. Bringing equality in the home and making it public. Intersectionality: consideration of gender alone is often insufficient. Note: earlier feminist theories ignored the queer theory.