SOCI 2130 Lecture 11: SOCI2130LectureEleven
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Cultural variation in ways violence is normalized. Wife abuse has historical acceptance and legalization in areas. Rule of thumb in 1767 as mentioned in lecture ten. Marriage is seen as women being a man"s property. In england, a wife beaters act was introduced in 1882. In alabama, wife beating was legal until 1971. Ward 9. 194 discusses the differences between wife beating and wife battering. Battering is a more polite way of wording abuse while beating is more gruesome sounding, yet battering is often more severe and often then what society refers to as beating . Don"t be fooled by the media/society"s choice of wording and really look into the issues being spoken about. Ryle p. 447, 1954 there are only 20 murders a year in london and not all are serious - some are just husbands killing their wives . Wife beating wasn"t named and seen as a serious social issue until the.
