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| FEMINIST THEORY - assumptions |
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Assumes the value, centrality and normality of women’s and girls’ experiences (What is the perspective of women/girls?)
Gender is a socially constructed concept; sometimes this social construction exaggerates differences between women and men in order to legitimize and perpetuate power relations (e.g., language: mankind vs. humankind; spinster vs. bachelor; “helps around the house”)
Insist that gender relations must be analyzed in specific sociocultural and historical contexts (e.g., Judeo-Christian world)
Continually question a unitary notion of “the family”; there are many forms of family
Emphasize social change and favor methodological approaches that are value-committed; want to know and change the world\
There is no objective, unbiased observation of humans |
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| FEMINIST THEORY -analyzed relationship between domesticity and women’s subordination |
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| FEMINIST THEORY -liberal feminist, 1792; gender should not be barrier to full citizenship, and equal legal, educational, and economic opportunities |
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| FEMINIST THEORY - suffragist; advocated reform of marriage and family customs, divorce reform, birth control & labor unions for women |
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| FEMINIST THEORY - another major player of Seneca Falls Convention in 1848; fought for women’s right to vote (gained in 1920 with 19th Amendment to US Constitution) |
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| FEMINIST THEORY - demonstrated sociocultural determinism of gender roles in work in South Pacific; mother’s role should be shared by many |
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| FEMINIST THEORY - power is central to social construction of gender; women defined as “the other” by men |
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| FEMINIST THEORY - feelings of dissatisfaction experienced by middle-class women in their roles as housewives |
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| FEMINIST THEORY - founder of radical feminism; aimed to make visible and to change men’s control over women’s sexuality and reproduction; proposed separate, self-contained women’s communities |
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| FEMINIST THEORY - writer/activist; women’s freedom only achieved by changes in structures of production, reproduction, child-rearing, and sexuality |
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| FEMINIST THEORY - sociologist; wrote The Future of Marriage, “his” and “her” marriage |
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| analyzed psychological and internal development of women’s sense of self as different from that of men |
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| biological/anatomical male and female classification |
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| learned and cultural phenomena associated with biological sex |
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| the home; traditional domain of women |
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| society, world of work, where men typically rule |
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| Overall life experiences of females from infancy to old age are fundamentally different from that of men |
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| process of applying labels to behaviors and roles according to one’s sex |
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| application of value to different categories (e.g., nurturing/competitive) |
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| social status given to one with more power and value in society |
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| consideration of how society has categorized and assigned values to behaviors and roles according to sex |
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| “conversation” of gender expectations and behaviors, ensuring that those who do not have privilege are included in the conversations |
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| beliefs and values are put into action; advocacy (e.g., inclusive language) |
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| father of ecology as a science; evolution and natural selection |
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| German zoologist credited for concept “ecology”: Greek root oik, house or living place; early proponent of evolution; believed “individual was product of cooperation between the environment and organismal heredity”; science should study organisms in their environment |
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| seen as father of human ecology for his study in genetics |
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| Ellen Swallows Richards (1890s) |
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| first female student at MIT and first president of American Home Economics Association; proposed a science of environment focused on home and family; study of air circulation, water quality, sanitation, nutrition, and foods helped her to see connection between people and environment; announced science of oekology to world in 1892 (the worthiest of all sciences which teaches the principles on which to found…healthy…and happy life)…eventually became Home Economics |
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| Prof at Michigan State Univ. renewed ecological theory in family studies; article The Family as an Ecosystem (1970) by Hook and Paolucci; family as a life-support system, dependent on the natural environment for physical sustenance and the social environment for humanness and for giving quality and meaning to life; linked two environments |
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| Prof at Cornell Univ.; major contemporary contributor; developed model for examining how environment affects intrafamilial processes; advocated contextual emphasis in ecological research in human development; described individual’s environment as “…set of nested structures, each inside the next, like a set of Russian dolls”: provides framework for looking at ways in which intrafamilial processes are influenced by extrafamilial conditions and environments; |
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| human organisms in interaction with their natural physical-biological, socio-cultural, and human-built environments |
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| the totality of the physical, biological, social, aesthetic, and structural surroundings for human beings and the context of their behavior and development |
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| Natural physical-biological: |
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| includes physical and biological components (e.g., atmosphere, climate, soil) |
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| alterations & transformations made by humans of the natural physical-biological environ (e.g., roads, pollution) |
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| presence of other human beings; abstract cultural constructions; social & economic institutions |
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| behavior of a living system that changes the state or structure of the system, environment or both |
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| requirements that must be met if are to survive & adapt: need for having, need for relating, need for being |
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| human conceptions of what is good, right & worthwhile; What is beautiful? (aesthetic values); What is useful? (pragmatic values); What is profitable? (economic values); What is good & right behavior? (moral values); integral part of family process; play major role in decision-making |
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| comprehensive process involving attainment, creation, coordination, & use of resources for meeting goals & realizing values; includes task-oriented processes as goal setting, planning, implementing & evaluating |
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| central cybernetic control system of family organization; basic process involves 1) recognizing that decision is needed, 2) identifying, comparing, & evaluating alternatives, & 3) choosing an acceptable alternative |
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| process of ongoing & interrelated changes in an individual’s ability to perceive, conceptualize, & act in relation to environment; family is critical microsystem for HD. Mesosystems (e.g., relations among home & school), exosystems (e.g., parents’ work settings), & macrosystem (e.g., cultural believs, value systems, institutions) are powerful influences on HD |
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| Quality of Human Life & Quality of Environment |
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| extent to which basic needs are met & values realized; well-being as assessed on individual (e.g., feelings of happiness vs. misery, peace of mind vs. anxiety, satisfaction vs. dissatisfaction), family (e.g., housing quality – presence or absence of plumbing facilities; housing satisfaction) & societal levels (e.g., rates of infant mortality, unemployment & extent of homelessness) |
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