SOC 2104 Study Guide - Final Guide: Eugen Sandow, Equal Pay For Equal Work, Hegemonic Masculinity

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2104
• Professor: Adolphine Y.Aggor- Boateng

Document Summary

Family: gender at the heart of the home. Industrialization and urbanization created the separation of the spheres. Shifted from home, farm to mill, factory, shop and office > became paid work. For men: work = paid labour, breadwinner. For women: god-given mission of household work. Large scale immigration, fear of race suicide". Move to assimilate canadian aboriginal peoples through indian act and residential schools . > by 1920 had made school attendance mandatory. Aboriginal students were beaten, tortured, for speaking their native language: women had been demanding right since 1850s, 1870s canadian women began to lobby" for vote, granted in 1918 (to some women only) era of the new women . State of the canadian family: since 1980s there has been growing social inequalities. Canadas child poverty rate is second worst amongst industrialized nations (highest in bc) Aboriginal children are worse off: canadian families getting smaller since 1971.