SOCIOL 2PP3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Libido, Orgasm, Credentialism And Educational Inflation

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Michel foucault: discourses frame our understanding of the world and its truths", over time. Kinsey reports: first scientific study of sex, finds that marriage is a place where emotional people engage in self-surveillance to conform and sexual needs are met. challenged understandings of sexuality. Heterosexuality constructed as the only permissible sexual orientation. Reversing family trends: increased fertility, decreased age of marriage, decreased divorces, decreasing female education. Fear of communism: non-conforming families (immigrants, poor families, gay) were pressured to conform, and when they didn"t they were reported and investigated. Book the way we never were" examines and dispels the perfect 1950s family. Reveals dissatisfactory marriages, alcoholism, drug abuse, and family violence. Women"s retreat into the domestic sphere was forced by soldiers returning to work, making. Book marriage, a history" states that marrying for love is a new concept, and makes these women financially dependent marriages more fragile. Interviewed three generations of homemakers to examine how women"s unpaid labour supports capitalism.