SMF101 Lecture 3: Lecture 3
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Intersectionality: our relationship choices are influenced by, family upbringing/religion, significant others, social structure shaped by, social class, socio-economic circumstances, sex, gender, culture, religion, life experiences, social expectations, larger political and economic trends. Theoretical framework: the basic assumptions that the social researchers made to determine the importance influences that family upbringing, religion and socio-economic forces that can have on our intimate relationships. Political economy: culture, ideologies, policies, economics influence family life, engels& capitalism- shift from urban/farm economy to men in factories (eventually women too, separate domains of responsibility, man as head of household- patriarchy, the family wage. Frederic le play argued that socio-economic changes such as industrialization and urbanization of the city will shift the family patterns such as increasing numbers of nuclear families, and decrease the numbers of patriarchal authority, and hierarchical family relationships. Friedrich engels also studied the impact of society transformations will have on families, but from a different approach: