SOC214H1 Lecture Notes - Kinsey Reports, White Supremacy, Social Forces
Document Summary
Creating an ideal: companionate marriage & the reality of 1950s. The early 20th-century: social forces that helped create an ideal of love-based, companionate marriage: a family with father the bread winner and mother the stay-at-home worker was seen as normal. Married couples must have babies and marital sexual activity is the primary goal: social changes and resulting concerns about preserving marriage and the family , anxiety about the new day for women, women s rights and images of gender equality. Family was threatened by the social changes. Changing status of women- control of property, working with income and the new day (women equal to men) Evidence of the anxiety: home economics was developed, organizations only foe men e. g. boy scout, group of identified gay men- people became self-identified as gay, a fear of weakening masculinity, given men s increased employment in white-collar jobs.
