Chapter 6 Flashcards
Define matrilocal.
Determining where you live based on your female kinship ties.
What did pre-industrialization men and women’s work spheres look like?
Men and women’s spheres were different, but worked together in the same time and places. Family and work life was linked.
How did urbanization and industrialization affect these spheres?
Wrenched them apart. Men were expected to work, and women were expected to care for the children.
What is race suicide? What inspired this ideology?
The 19th and 20th century ideology that argued the decline in the white race. Immigration and declining birth rates in middle and upper class women inspired this fear.
What changed in women’s employment rates between WWI and WWII?
- women’s employment increase
- mainly due to economic decline in the Great Depression
What did women’s role look like after WWII?
- high marriage rates
- younger age at marriage
- high fertility rates
- low divorce rates
What new family setup emerged post WWII? What did it look like?
The nuclear family.
* major separation of male and female spheres
* typically middle and upper class
* men are expected to be the breadwinners, women took care of the children
Did men and women enjoy the nuclear family mold?
No. Men resented the fact they cannot see their families, and women resented their limited rights and strenuous tasks.
What does the child poverty rates today look like compared to 50 y.a.?
Drastically more child poverty compared to then. More poverty with racialized, disabled, immigrant, indigenous, and single mothered children.
What does the regular Canadian family look like today compared to before?
- smaller families (avg 4,2 in 1931, avg 2.9 in 2021)
- two parents remains normal
- less children
- marriage remains normal, but declining rates
Waite and Nock produced research on the marriage premium. What is this?
Idea that suggests marriage produces a better life, ie:
* better health
* longer life’
* better mental health
* better sex
* better earnings, wealth
* overall happier
But why is the marriage premium deceiving?
- the study was compared to widows and divorcees, so obviously the married people were happier
- it also seems that richer and happier people get married in the first place
- new studies showed that the never married were happier and healthier than the married
Are unmarried women happier than unmarried men?
Yes.
True or false: parents start gendering their children the second the sex of the child is revealed.
True.
Are boys’ masculinity policed more than girls’ femininity?
Yes. Everyone scolds boys more for deviating from their hegemonic expectations than women that deviated from feminine expectations.
Define homophily.
The tendency of the sexes to maintain more relationships with their dame sex.
What did sociologist Hoschschild speculate the second shift is?
The second shift is defined as women’s increased stress due to the expectation to work, and take care of children.
