SOCI 2655 MIDTERM

Devaluation of Carework

Care is undervalued due to its association with women, leading to low wages and lack of state support.

Prisoner of Love

Caregivers accept low wages due to intrinsic motivation and emotional attachment, making them vulnerable to exploitation.

MONG - Blurring of Skilled & Unskilled Labor

Family caregivers perform complex medical and emotional tasks without formal training.

MONG - Fragmentation of Healthcare

Families must navigate complex policies, proving that care is not limited to hospitals.

MONG - Emotional Work Across Paid/Unpaid Roles

Both family and professional caregivers engage in emotional labor, breaking the paid/unpaid divide.

TRONTO - Caring About

Recognizing a need and showing attentiveness.

TRONTO - Caring For

Accepting responsibility for addressing care needs.

TRONTO - Caregiving

Performing the physical and emotional labor of care.

TRONTO - Care-Receiving

Evaluating whether care meets the recipient’s needs

Caring With

Ensuring care aligns with justice and equality in society.

Social Model of Disability

This model views disability as a societal construct rather than an individual deficit

Disability as a Social Issue

Barriers, not impairments, limit people’s participation in society.

Medical vs. Social Framing

Disability is seen as a medical defect rather than a systemic issue of exclusion.

Lack of Resources

Policies fail to provide adequate healthcare, employment, and accessibility.

Intersection of Race & Gender

Care labor is racialized and gendered, with women of color disproportionately in low-wage caregiving roles.

White Womanhood Constructed in Contrast

Privilege and status of white women are shaped in opposition to women of color.

History of Paid Care

Not a New Phenomenon: Care transitioned from unpaid household labor to paid work due to industrialization and changing gender roles.

Family Metaphors: Positives

Creates emotional bonds, support, and a caring environment.

Family Metaphors: Negatives

Blurs professional boundaries, exploits staff, and creates unrealistic expectations.

Wage Penalty

Reasons for Low Wages:

• Care is feminized and undervalued.

• Care work is labor-intensive with limited productivity gains.

• Emotional rewards are used to justify lower pay.

Neoliberalism & Care

Intensifying Home Care: Families, especially women, bear increasing unpaid caregiving responsibilities due to lack of public support.

Social Reproduction

the array of activities and relationships involved in maintaining people both daily and intergenerational household labor like cooking, cleaning, and caregiving.

Emotional Labor

where employees have to act or put on a façade of a happy face in order to comply with company rules and expectations

Reproductive Labor

sustains human life – includes various forms of household labor and carework that is disproportionately performed by women

Family Ideology

the set of beliefs and values that shape the understanding and expectations of family roles and relationships

Intersecting Oppressions

the overlapping and interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender, which create complex systems of discrimination and disadvantage.

Organized Emotional Care

how structural support reduces the emotional burdens of paid care workers in institutional settings.

Care Infrastructure

having systems in place to support people who need care and those who provide it.