Dude, You’re A Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School by C.J. Pascoe (2007) is an important piece of sociological research about the intersection of sexual identity and masculinity in adolescent males. Though ten years out of date, and sidetracked by the topic of female gender identity, this book provides an in-depth look at the behaviour of teenage males within educational institutions. I would recommend this book for people who interact with children and teenagers on a regular basis, such as educators, athletic coaches, and parents. This essay explores three sociological concepts that are prominent in Pascoe’s book: queer city life, Marxism in relation to education, and hidden curriculum.…
The Analysis of About Marriage The article “About Marriage’’ written by Danielle Crittenden objects to the views feminist have with traditional marriage from the selection What Our Mothers Didn’t Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman (1999). In this article Crittenden talks about the impact the feminist movement had on marriage. Crittenden blatantly disagrees with the feminist view on traditional marriage. Danielle Crittenden is a former columnist for the New York Post; Crittenden is the founder of Women’s Quarterly and the author of the novel Amanda Bright@Home (1999).…
Sociology is one of the most important subjects today as it helps us explain and examined our behaviors as individuals, along with the society as a whole. Sociologist 's view on the society can be different depends on the perspective that the sociologist decides to study under. Some sociologists look at the society in a wider lens to learn about the society as a whole, while others might choose to look more at the smaller part of the society for closer details about human behavior in everyday aspect. Either way, sociologists will always learn about new information regarding which perspective they study the society with. There are three main perspectives that sociologists would more likely to choose.…
in preference to seeking to redefine gendered members of the family within the construct of the family, and therefore be coopted by means of the bounds of the version, Martha fineman unravels the organization and weaves an opportunity norm. she exposes the fundamental unit of the conventional version: the horizontal sexual relationship between husband and wife. by using stepping outside of the conventional version, she is ready to show the various threads which tightly tie together to hold the model intact: governmental attacks on unmarried motherhood, the rise of pop’s rights discourse, and the failure of the egalitarian family. she is likewise able to find the knot: the inherent inability of cutting-edge family conceptions to accurately cope with dependency or gender equality. ultimately, however, fineman is aware about the limits of her power to reweave the own family unit into a brand-new material, and we are compelled to look at the software of her…
In "Worlds Of Pain/ Life in the Working-Class Family", Lillian Rubin observes that "the family as an institution is both oppressive and protective and, depending on the issue, is experienced sometimes one way, sometimes the other -- often in some mix of the two -- by most people who live in families." ( Rubin, Worlds of Pain, p. 6 ) It is my assessment that in working-class families the institution functions in both ways, but is more often oppressive than it is protective. The basis of this oppression in the working-class is the increased saliency of cultural "reproduction" when compared to other classes, and those misguided ideas that were intended to protect; often end up limiting social mobility. It is the individuals that break away from…
My grandmother believes that it is the womans’ responsibility to be a proper housewife by making dinner, keeping the house clean, and making sure the children are taken care of. She acquired this belief through her own experiences with her mother. Back then, it was more of a normalcy to stay at home and not have much of a life while the husband worked. She presents this belief by telling me I need to learn to start cooking and being more organized so that I can get married. This article continues to revolve around the “second shift”, but it also discusses gender strategies and the changes in families, marriage, and work force, depending on how a couple may decide to construct their lives.…
Schwartz described women how choose the carrier as the primary source were treated as honorable males, while those how choose family along with their carrier are paid less. The Patricia Schroeder of Colorado argues that Schwartz was implementing the idea that the women should choose to take care of the family or choose a carrier instead. This is depriving the right of the women how is taking care of the family from building a carrier or vice versa. The statement made by the author lead fear in many women regarding their payments and promotions. There should be no discrimination like mommy track or daddy track, building a family is important to develop the society and both the individuals have equal part in taking care of children and family the amount of burden shared between the individual might not be the…
In “The Limits of Liberal Legalism: Marriage, Divorce, Pregnancy, and Abortion.” Alexis de Tocqueville thought that the American family was “haven of cooperation”. Women in those times didn’t fight for the same rights that men had. For years women that wanted to be independent were discriminated against and were denied jobs that were predominately done by men. During that time period there was no other way for a woman to survive without a man's help without being judged.…
Many people view the social welfare policy very differently and it is a topic where there are a lot of agreements as well as disagreements. Functionalist’s see how institutions act or work and try to understand why things happen the way that they do. Functionalist’s see society as a system that works together to maintain balance within the whole. From a functionalist’s perspective, the social welfare policy would be a way to provide equality for all and would be seen as the best thing to do to keep society running and the citizens happy. An interactionist’s theory is that people develop their beliefs and views based on who they are interacted with.…
Although, these policies were made to help men due past historical social demands. “The assumption was that breadwinners (presumed men) had caretakers (women, of course) holding down the home front”. In this quote we see that past social conditions that required the male as the worker and the female has the housemaid now does not correlate with modern requirements. Due to these gender establishments when women are given an opportunity to become independent they are given gender roadblocks that prevent them from being socially…
No other author like Gail Warshofsky Lapidus has written about Soviet women as she has. In one of her many books, Women, Work, and Family in the Soviet Union Lapidus claims that the irreplaceable role of Soviet women in both production and reproduction made it virtually certain that the questions of women’s work and household duties were central issues on the Soviet political agenda during the late 1960s. Once the male population started to rise again, and return to the labor force the government was faced with the question of whether to keep women working or encourage them back into the boundaries of their, homes and continue their traditional roles as mothers and wives. The government was fully aware that women constituted a good portion…
Overall, Okin’s approach to justice in the family removes “major current injustices to women and children” (Okin, JGF, 1989, p. 179), while the father gets to benefit from the time they spend with their children, through the involvementt of the government. This results in an increased number of women in higher job positions (Okin, JGF, 1989, p. 179). Thus, Okin concludes that to cultivate justice within the family, gender roles need to go (Rauhut, 2008, p. 93). However, the confliction between “egalitarianism … and liberalism” (Marway, 2017, p. 12) which Okin advocates creates conflict within Okin’s account for justice, and consequently weakens it. In addition to this, although Okin’s approach to justice in the household is not reflective of…
n Dr. Stephanie Coontz’s talk at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, she reevaluated today’s nostalgia towards the nuclear family popular in the 1950s. Her lecture title, The Way We Never Were is significant because it highlights the fact that the idea of the male breadwinner was a brief moment in world history. Only a tiny minority of 19th century were able to achieve this way of life that was actually untraditional. The family realities for most of world history are what the 1950s considered abnormal.…
During the interwar period between World War I and World War II, Russia communism and German socialism reformed ideologies and structures of the work and the home life. The Russian and German governments esteemed and created standards for women in these societies to best contribute to the needs and desires of their different societal, governmental, and economical systems. Russia and Germany took similar and different stances, depending on the time and events occurring within the nation, in the areas of workforce contribution, family life, and general equality between men and women. First, workforce contribution had its differences between Russia and Germany. In Russia, the women were considered more equally to the men compared to other societies.…
1. Mill and Marx both argue that women are oppressed in modern society. How are their understandings of this oppression similar/different? Mill’s and Marx’s understanding of female oppression by the society is more different than similar.…