Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - The Jerks, Shift Work, Stepfamily
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The delivery of health care and mental health care is institutionalised. How you are treated depends on who you are. Families not always organised around this nonsense known as love. Definition: rules and beliefs that structure social relationships. All things social are relative to time, space and place. What is normal today was a criminal act years ago, or in a different culture: context. Holding people responsible for their choices but putting their choices in the context of having the opportunity to choose. Free will is complicated the prof has more free will than others because of class & education: dynamic. It"s seen as outside material, economic and social forces and survive them all. Women are seen as the primary consumers. (women"s stuff costs more. Single mothers (19th early 20th century) Breadwinner father (1950s: golden era of capitalism: welfare state, living wage (earn enough to support children & wife) for men (means economic dependency for women)