SOCIOL 2U06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Nuclear Family, Consumerism, Heterosexuality

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Lecture 13: the 1950"s nuclear family, readings: mary louise adams" chapter: sexuality and the post- Book: the trouble with normal : looks at the discourses of the 1950s. Discourses reinforced heterosexuality as normal and dominant, only acceptable form of sexuality: focused on michael foucault"s idea of discourse. A body of knowledge or info or expertise that helped to define something, truth . Question about whose version of truth we are. Frame our understanding of the social world: shapes social policy. Shape our understanding of our own sexuality: can exert tremendous power over us. If discourses about sexuality in the public realm only reinforce heterosexuality, then essentially people are denied other truths and other ways of expressing themselves. If this is presented as the only option, people have to conform: self-regulation: concept of surveillance over time people take part in self-surveillance/self-monitoring to conform. Prof"s experience: born in the 70s, didn"t hear anything about homosexuality until first year of university in 1990.

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