SOCI 3660 Lecture Notes - Materialism, Prentice Hall, Symbolic Interactionism
31 Mar 2014
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Theorizing and researching the family and family relations. Research methods: structural theories, sociological perspectives, materialism and/or conflict theory: (marx, engels) Changes in family lives reflect material change (e. g. the mode of production industrialization) Capitalism creates: exploitation of men in the workforce; oppression of women: political economy. * assumes the power of the one class over another (social control), capitalist relations of production. * a more concentrated focus on how economic and political processes shape society and history and thereby the family, families: structural functionalism: (parsons and bales) * the social institution of the family harmoniously exists alongside other institutions. * hierarchical generations and role specialization within families produces harmony. * families are created, understood, and practiced through symbolic communication, by realities through micro-level interactions meanings that are shared. Individuals do gender in their interactions with others; they also do family . See gender and family relations as variable, linked to socio-historical context and other intersections.
