Sociology Housework

Sociology is the study of groups of people and how society interacts with them. There are many people out there that have done research or contributed in some way to sociology. Not just on people, but things like religions, countries, genders, race, and many more. Many things play in the role to form us and our society. Here in America, we have Trump as our president and we eat burgers and french fries, but over in japan they grow lots of their own food and eat it like potatoes with vegetables and chicken. Different things happen around the world and we just can’t seem to think there is other things out there than what we just do or what we call ourselves and so forth. We don’t think about how our society affects us and how we affect society.

On November 18, 1978 what has been called the largest mass suicide in modern history occurred in Jonestown, Guyana where 909 members of The Peoples Temple died. Jim Jones was the leader of the Peoples Temple Church and religious movement. The church was looked highly upon by many back in the 1950-1970’s. All races and backgrounds were brought together as one in his congregation. Religion serves as a sanctuary from the harshness of everyday life and oppression by the powerful. Most of Jones’s followers lived lives that they were dissatisfied with and they felt as if the movement gave them a purpose. Many of his followers believed that Jim brought more opportunities into their lives and allowed them to change for

10 o’clock (house 12) – This house relates to privacy not everyone will reviel their faith, their enlightenment, or their attitude towards others.

People are complex. Our various characteristics, including but not limited to, behaviors, ideals, perspectives, attitudes, and physical attributes make us who we are as individuals and society as a whole. The macrocosm of society, by default of the people within it, is supremely complex. As we would expect, society is evolutionary and as such, there are numerous theoretical approaches to its study. The three major theoretical approaches are examined here.

Social structure and social interaction are based on two levels of analysis: Macrosociology and microsociology. Macrosociology, like its name describes, is focused on the broad view of society and how it studies society’s behavior. Theorists can analyze and distinguish the different social classes and groups in society. Microsociology is focused on social interaction, how people react and what they do when they are together. Theorists can examine people’s behaviors and how they communicate to one another. Both can be used to understand society and society’s social life.

The Change in the Domestic Tasks Between Women and Men In the past it was obvious that woman did considerably more domestic work than men, this being mainly due to traditional views taken by society. The husband was seen as the breadwinner and protector whilst the woman was seen as a housewife and child carer. This view is known as the traditional Nuclear family (not including the offspring). In recent years it has become apparent that woman were not happy with this 'traditional' system so began to try and change it through a movement known as Feminism.

I live in the East Flatbush area of Brooklyn an I have seen the gentrification arising slowly. However, whenever I visit the Park Slope neighborhoods like this article I would agree that there are many West Indian immigrants that are caregivers for the privileged white upper middle and upper class families. I would often see a group of Caribbean women pushing strollers with white children around prospect park. I always was interested in it as a good paying side job but it seems you have to have the proper connections in order to land a job like that. I believe that these caregivers raise these children to be proper girls and boys and I have seen where the mom is there and the baby calling the babysitter mom. Which shows signs of the loving

A participant observation is where the researcher takes part in the event that they are observing or the everyday life of the group whilst observing it. There are two different types of participant observation. One type of participant observation is an overt observation, this is when the researcher makes the participants aware that they are taking part in an the observation.

Schneider's(2011) theoretical background is that earnings play a negotiating role of who does the housework and who does no. His findings were that many believe that people think whoever earns more money shouldn't have to do more housework. But what he discovers is that housework isn't a gender-neutral activity that is bargained over, but a set of actions imbued with culture meaning, action that serves as a resource for the construction of femininity as a threat to masculinity (Schneider, 2011). He discovered that men and women alike who are deviant to the norm, will seek to neutralize that deviance. Men will actually do less housework if they earn less than the woman and woman will do more housework if they earn more money. Overall he discovers through surveying individuals that women do gender through housework and men do not. I saw the same thing through my family. When I asked my female members how they would feel if they were asked to not help and not clean or cook the responses included, “Insulted, and I would never want that!” to “That would be just weird.” As if the notion of someone else taking over the task is a vulgar theory. Yet when I asked my male family members, the idea was pleasant to

I never got the chance to ask my family any of these questions, but I did run across my roommate’s mother these questions. Hearing from a different family perspective had me actually figure out and really think about what gender ideology their family was without having bias against my own family. So looking in to a different family way of life through chores got me to see how other families today practice their housework.

Gender roles can be defined as how society expects men and women to portray themselves. This can be observed through separation of household chores and acceptable jobs for each gender. Women are expected to do all household chores, while men are expected to do all work outside of the home. An example could be a woman doing laundry, while the man mows the lawn. In previous generations women were expected to stay home while men were the bread winners. This stigma could even be seen in the times of hunter gathers, the men would go out and find food for the homes, while the women would stay back and make clothing and other assorted items. This type of mentality was carried on through the generations and passed on through parents teaching their

Social Work is currently concerned with the responsibility of accompanying processes of social transformation theoretically and methodologically, which implies contributing to the mediation of conflicts based on the recognition of human rights. In this logic, it is necessary to strengthen in Social Work the paradigm of change and emancipation, so that the generation of knowledge contributes effectively to the processes of institutional and community intervention, and with that, it extended and transcends public policy. social is currently measuring its political responsibility, something that was not given at the beginning of the profession and precisely dates from the integration of political science in our field of action to make a more comprehensive

Sociology is in our everyday lives, we are surrounded by this in everything we do, and it is the understanding of yourself within the setting of your cultural circumstances (Newman, 2013). For this discussion post, I will be discussing whether or not nurses should study sociology. I will apply concepts that I have learned throughout this course to this question, as well as ideas from the article, “Desperately seeking sociology”.

Broadly speaking, the term ‘housework’ is used to describe the management of the home, which ‘involves a range of activities, the purpose of which is to maintain household members’ (Hatt 1997: 39). Hatt discusses how the industrial revolution and the rise of capitalism created a tidal wave of mass social change; causing production to shift from within the household to the factory. The home is now the site of the ‘reproduction’ of labour, a role which has become strongly gendered; shaped by social policies and ideologies that maintain gender roles(Malos, 1980, Cooke, 2009). There have been a lot of significant changes occurring in the area of housework since

The main tension we have talked about is the how the family exists in reality and how we view the family