SOCI 100 Lecture Notes - Nuclear Family, Internment Of Japanese Americans, Minivan
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Oct. 6/09: rst main organization/institution of socialization we come into contact: family. Two kids - boy/girl: house with lawn, dog - golden retriever, minivan, volvo, always been minority form. But idealized this form: family researchers want to know why. Traditional nuclear family: emerged during enlightenment/1800s - victorian era, heyday in 1950s, families = ideological spaces, when we think about family, think about them as families. What we ve had to do is politicize the family. Understand the family as a political/economic form: farming communities have more kids - put them to work on the farm. < said that the type of family we have is directly related to our economy: family shape we experience isn t natural, accident. Deliberate construction: construct it to make sure it deals with economy, type of work we are expected to do, politics: dad goes to work. Assume it to be natural but isn t: socialize kids with prevailing ideologies, systems.
