activity‚ completely alienated from more rewarding‚ productive activities and from more enjoyable‚ leisure pursuits. Thus education is neither rewarding nor stimulating‚ for the student or the teacher. It is‚ in fact‚ a necessary evil—drudgery‚ like housework. The problem is not simply a matter of systems integration or role conflict. The problem is inherent in the nature of modern capitalism‚ which demands and rewards productive labor while relegating reproductive and leisure activities to the individual’s
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society. Family life is organized in ways that are useful or functional for society. Despite being antiquated‚ the breadwinner-homemaker family is an efficient way to organize family life. The husband works outside the home while the wife does the housework and child care. The functionalist perspective is a male-dominant perspective (Strong et. al. 2011). In modern times‚ feminists have attacked patriarchy view and many women resisted male domination. The Feminist Perspective argued that the functionalist
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FAMILY George Peter Murdock (Social Structure 250 societies) “A social group characterised by common residence‚ economic co-operation and reproduction. It includes adults of both sexes‚ at least two of whom maintain socially approved sexual relationship‚ and one or more children‚ own or adopted of the sexually co-habiting adults”. The family thus lives together‚ puts resources and produces offspring. Nuclear family is the smallest group. Extended family is Nuclear family plus vertical
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which he thinks it is funny/ true about traditional women. Women has small feet‚ so they can easy run around the house to get housework done‚ and especially small feet women can get closer to the skin to wash dishes. This often makes me mad about the existence of gender discrimination‚ I don’t believe that there is anything men or women should or should not do. Housework is not only women’s job; it belongs to the whole family‚ so therefore everyone has the equal responsibility to take care of it
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children may find it hard to settle in and feel conformable. The main source of income seems to be from the man of the family which is traditionally how it is. This links in with the woman doing the more of the housework things as my results show. However it also shows that the housework responsibilities are shared within the family. Everyone who did my questionnaire agreed that there are positives of having a single parent family. This may be because that they can make all the decisions‚ also it
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has been some indication that women voluntarily assume a larger share of household responsibilities because they feel that their male partners do not perform these tasks satisfactorily. How do you think this observation fits in with the sharing of housework?
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Nowadays‚ it is commonly said that life is better than it was 50 years ago‚ but… is it a reality? In fact‚ the different lifestyles cannot be defined as superior or inferior‚ but it is a truth acknowledged that there are many changes from 1970 up the present. First of all‚ childhood is the period of life which has suffered the most important alterations. In the past‚ children were accustomed to play on the street all day long without adult’s supervision. On the one hand‚ boys used to
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Forrest‚ Sharita. “Weak job market has more dads staying home - and they may stay there.” Illinois News Bureau‚ Aug. 1‚ 2012‚ news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/205018. Forrest provides summary‚ commentary‚ and analysis on Karen Kramer’s study on the topic of stay-at-home dads. The author focuses on the increase in the number of stay-at-home fathers‚ often caused by economic recessions. Families with a highly educated mother who has a greater earning potential are much more likely to have a stay-at-home
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Savannah Raisor Mrs. Van Orden AP Language and Composition 29 September 2014 Now We Can Begin Crystal Eastman was an American lawyer‚ antimilitarist‚ socialist‚ journalist‚ and most importantly‚ a feminist at the end of the women’s suffrage movements. Her words inspire the women of America. She breathed life into the Bill of Rights as a major leader in the suffrage and equal rights movements in the early twentieth century. Eastman displays several ideas that propel the ideology of not only the roles
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Differences in how conflict theorists and symbolic interactionists view the issue of gender and housework. The conflict theorist perspective emphasizes on the inequality existing in marriages. According to the conflict theorists‚ there exists an unequal power between couples (husbands and wives) in a marriage. Conflict theorist postulate that an individual with marriage experience as having been in marriage or have even experienced marriage from its inner perspective understand that however much
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