SOCY 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Reproduction, Learning Disability, Queer Theory
25 Sep 2016
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Socy 352 lecture # 4 (week 2) Production-social reproduction: the nuclear family in historical context. Gender and social reproduction laslett and brenner (1989) {vimp: social reproduction refers to: the activities and attitudes, behaviors and emotions, responsibilities and relationships directly involved in the maintenance of life on a daily basis, and intergenerationally. Middle class everyone was the same. Segregated from work & downtown: what challenges does living in suburbia present for mothers. With segregation there is devalue: how might a feminist/social reproduction perspective (laslett and brenner, 1989) The dominant class and ideal family: until recently, the ideal was the patriarchal, heterosexual male-breadwinner family of white euro-canadian middle-class custom. This particular social construction of family retains adherents even while most canadians today do not live in families resembling the model. (comacchio, p. 24) Types of disabilities: visual, hearing, learning, autism, physical, emotional, cognitive. Counting the disabled: disability is a major issue in canada.
