SOC263H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Typical Male, Big Area, Migrant Domestic Workers
Document Summary
Social reproduction can be defined as the activities that bring about inequality from one generation to another. It is evident in how women provide for families and children and how this limits production for them. The three forms of domestic labour are also part of reproduction processes and they include: Maintaining the household: cleaning, cooking, gardening, shoveling of snow, mowing of lawns all constitute this. Caring for adults and children: it involves both caring about and caring for others. Caring, meaning feeling of affection and responsibility backed up by actions to enhance well-being and this can be seen done for both children and adults in families. The processes involved in consumption or making ends meet: through distributive mechanisms like wages, pensions, social assistance and so on individuals purchase food, shelter, clothes and other necessities of life. Low income families who are not privileged to have this use creative and strategic methods to make ends meet.
