SOC366H1 Lecture Notes - Parenting, Nuclear Family
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Conceptualizing the family: functionalist perspective: looking at the glue that holds society together. One more is instrumental socialization [involves the father connecting the family to outer society via his paid work. Expressive socialization is where the mother teaches children appropriate sex-role behaviours and gender norms so that they can go on and contribute to society in instrumental and expressive ways. Feminist perspective climates in society country of the world. Intersectional perspectives: motherhood is not a biological construct but rather a social, we need to deconstruct motherhood and destabilize the white, need to deconstruct definitions that associate motherhood with construct middle class bias the status of women. Social construction of motherhood: motherhood isn"t biological. Manufacturing motherhood: before the 19th century, child rearing was not assumed to be the responsibility of the women. Shadowing motherhood: macdonald 1998, making nannies invisible; this happens by separating paid care from real motherhood, mothers wanted to see nannies as disposable and as employees.
