SOC 371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Wage Labour, Labour Power, Structural Functionalism
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Feeling like you have a calling to do something you"re meant to do it. Jobs vs. careers: jobs: just for money, careers: more fulfilling, life long. Across the world, it is predictable what kinds of work men will do vs. what women will do: it"s better than it has ever been, but there"s still difference. Until recently we didn"t see work as separate from our lives: work= life, women and men worked equally. How did we get to the 1950"s ideals that women should be staying home to take care of children: this was truer for white families. Having separate roles is not naturally prescribed: i. e women weren"t doctors not because they couldn"t but because people thought they shouldn"t, also, it wasn"t that men couldn"t take care of their children, but they shouldn"t. If we decide what need for a society to function and we divide the workload, the society will be happy (structural functionalism); it makes sense .
