Conclusion

Pauline Hunt

Chapter 4 in Gender and Class Consciousness, 1980, pp 180-186 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract One of the things I have been concerned with in this research is how individual and collective ideas influence individual and collective behaviour and, conversely, how individual and collective behaviour influences ideas. When an idea is held in common by a group of people, which has the effect of making these people unaware of the contradictions contained in their situation, the idea in question is an ideology. When people are unaware of the contradictions contained in their situation it becomes difficult for them to envisage things being other than they are; in this sense ideologies are inherently conservative. When a particular form of behaviour occurs on a wide basis it is a social practice; so, for example, the common tendency for married women to return to the labour market when their children start school is a social practice.

Keywords: Labour Market; Social Practice; Gender Division; Domestic Task; Class Consciousness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1980
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-04725-3_5

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