HDFS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Feminist Theory, Conflict Management, Minority Group

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HDFS202
• Professor: Bahira Sherif Trask

Document Summary

Humans are hierarchical and struggle with each other: macro-level example: conflict can occur among the sexes; social classes; age groups, micro-level: in families. Foundational belief: gender always matters in social relations: women"s experiences are different and unequal to those of men - including in the family, women are actively oppressed by men. Gender inequality in the home and in society. How gender inequality intersects with race, ethnicity, and social class. Critique: don"t always pay attention to other forms of discrimination such as age, disability, and religion. Focus is only on some types of diversity and ignores commonalities. Often associated with white women"s concerns : minority group women and women in other parts of the world have other concerns-- families provide buffer at times. A nuclear family structure, with a focus upon the marital bond rather than the larger kinship group, was particularly functional for industrial society.