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Typical Girls? Young Women from School to the Labour Market Christine Griffin London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, pp. ix + 226, £6.95 pbk:
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In this article, social workers appeared to collude with men in seeing domestic failings as comprehensible reasons for violence towards their wives, and this rationalisation of men's violence towards wives is not simply a response located in the everyday practices of social workers; as this collection demonstrates, it underscores and determines responses of major public services such as the police, local authority housing departments etc.Abstract:
Indeed, social workers appeared to collude with men in seeing domestic failings as comprehensible reasons for violence. As Maynard concludes, this rationalisation (if not legitimisation) of men’s violence towards wives is not simply a response located in the everyday practices of social workers; as this collection demonstrates, it underscores and determines responses of major public services such as the police, local authority housing departments etc. And, as Mary Maynard rightly concludes, it is an example of the way in which patriarchal relations are reproduced and sustained. It is difficult to see how, then, in the absence of automatic referral of all wife bat-read more
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Learning to Labor: How Working-Class Kids Get Working-Class Jobs
TL;DR: The role of ideology in cultural forms and social reproduction has been studied in this paper, where the authors propose a theory of cultural forms, including power, culture, class and institution.