SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Wet Nurse, Nuclear Family, Wage Labour
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Soca02 introduction to sociology week 3 january 24, 2013. Family is valued but seen as threatened: divorced, teenage pregnancy , violence. We look back at the family in history: avoid nostalgia, argue: behaviour is a function. Nuclear family as beneficial: regulates sexual behavior and reproduction, socialization. Has shrunk quite a bit: protection, affection and emotional relatedness, economic unit, confers status. Family (especially under capitalism: economic rather than emotional unit, oppressive, women as dependent labour. Not idealize past, but seek out the facts : piece it together from church records, graves, medical reports and etc. Behaviour is a function of the social conditions under which it occers: ex. The oldest son gets the family fortune or they break it up. Lack of resoucres: lead to medical rationing. Britain; they get their medical help for cancellation (knee surgery or hip surgery) Pre-industrial family as extended: underlies the nostalgia.
