Social Reproduction Theory and Family Sociology Practice Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards covering Social Reproduction Theory, Marxist frameworks, demographic shifts in Aotearoa New Zealand, and the sociology of gender and family.

Standard North American Family (SNAF)

An ideological code identified by Dorothy E. Smith as a prescriptive married couple where the male earns and the female manages the household.

Base (Marxist Framework)

The layer of Karl Marx’s model consisting of the forces and relations of production.

Superstructure (Marxist Framework)

The political-legal and ideological layers of Karl Marx’s model that serve to justify the material base.

Social Reproduction Theory (SRT)

A framework built by Lise Vogel and Tithi Bhattacharya arguing that capitalism necessitates the reproduction of society and labour-power, not just biological reproduction.

Capitalist Circuit

The circuit expressed as $M \rightarrow C(Mp + Lp) \rightarrow P \rightarrow C' \rightarrow M'$.

Worker’s Circuit

The circuit where $M \rightarrow Ac \rightarrow P \rightarrow Lp \rightarrow M$, resulting in no new surplus value through consumption.

Human labor-power (Lp)

The unique commodity in the worker's circuit that creates surplus value in the production phase.

Function of Transphobia (Toni Morrison)

Acts as a distraction that forces trans people to justify their existence.

Transphobia (Sophie Lewis)

Viewed as the 'thin end of the wedge' for reactionary politics.

Maria Patiño Case

The case of an athlete with $XY$ chromosomes and Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (CAIS) used by Anne Fausto-Sterling to show sex is a spectrum.

Performativity

Judith Butler's theory that sex is ideological and bodies become sexed through the citation and performance of norms.

Resistance in Aotearoa (2025)

Included attacks by Destiny Church on Te Atatū Library events, where activists like Aliyna Chisholm and Ti Lamusse advocated for collective self-defense.

Institutions

Defined by Alison Mackinnon and Allan G. Johnson as enduring behavioral rules and ideas used to achieve social goals.

Māori Urbanization Trend

Increase in urban residency from $25\%$ in $1945$ to $84\%$ in $2013$.

Total Fertility Rate (TFR)

A demographic measure that fell from $4.2$ to $1.87$ in $2016$ in New Zealand, which is below the $2.1$ replacement rate.

Cohabitation in New Zealand

New Zealand has a rate of $16\%$; marriage is increasingly viewed as a 'luxury good' for the economically stable.

Companionate Marriage

The shift to unions based on romantic love rather than arranged feudal or bourgeois alliances.

Socialist Love

The argument by Alexandra Kollontai and Kirsten Ghodsee that women in socialist states like East Germany had better relationships due to economic independence.

Motherhood Mandate

The social view that parenthood is a mandated expression of womanhood.

Reproductive Justice

Defined by Flavin and Ellen Willis as the right to have or not have children and to parent in safe environments.

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Prevalence

Approximately $1$ in $5$ adult women in post-$2015$ Aotearoa experience sexual violence.

Duluth Wheel

A model of IPV control focusing on tactics such as economic abuse and the use of children.

Coercive Control

Evan Stark's term for the micro-regulation of a partner's daily life, emerging as a response to women's equality.

Horizontal Segregation

The segregation of genders into different industries.

Vertical Segregation

The existence of glass ceilings that prevent gender advancement within hierarchies.

Lukes’ Three Dimensions of Power

Includes Overt (decisions), Covert (agenda setting), and Hidden (ideological acceptance of inequality).

Triple Level Motherhood

Consists of Institutional (state privatization of dependency), Interactional (negotiating with partners), and Individual (self-surveillance) levels.

Hyper-Commodification

A potential future where domestic labor is fully marketized, described as 'Uber for Wives'.

Metabolic Rift

A future scenario where capitalist growth leads to environmental collapse and human extinction.