SOC346H5 Lecture 6: SOC347H5S Family and Masculinities Feb 14 2017
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Feb 14 2017: combination of culture and policy which influence future relationship with father and child relation. Cultural context: male bread winner roles, primary care taking, men as caring and instrumental, can lead to distress depression trying to manage roles provider vs fatherhood. Examples from miller reading: 2nd shift women do both but men see it as a way to fit in child care into their own schedule. Colonialism and capitalism talk about how traditional societies have their own gender scripts but with colonialism private and public sphere becomes predominant division of labour. Intertwined with societies perception of masculinity what it means to be a man is associated with fatherhood, how children view relationship with father vice versa.
