SOC263H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter Final: Black Canadians, Nuclear Family, Nanny
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Chapter 8: cage(s), families, and domestic labour, and the process of reproduction. Women faced barriers after going through the process of becoming a mother. Example of barriers in continuing education and in securing gainful employment: Women faced difficulties in finding suitable child care for their children; women quit high school after she became pregnant because of the attitudes of teachers and principal. Women emphasize importance of marriage and family at the expense of economic self-sufficiency. Women provide for families and children and that the ideologies that shape this care limit their opportunities for education and paid work. Distributive process : women rely on spouses or the state for their means of survival. American sociologists david popenoe argues family is in a state of decline. Now, families don t provide functions such as creation, socialization, caring, economic support and sexual regulation as effectively as it used to. Families have lost their social power and control on their members.
