Journal articles: 'Social reproduction theory'

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Munro, Kirstin. "“Social Reproduction Theory,” Social Reproduction, and Household Production." Science & Society 83, no. 4 (October 2019): 451–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/siso.2019.83.4.451.

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Čakardić, Ankica. "From Theory of Accumulation to Social-Reproduction Theory." Historical Materialism 25, no. 4 (February 14, 2017): 37–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1569206x-12341542.

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AbstractThe paper functions as a contribution to feminist analyses that are methodologically based on Rosa Luxemburg’s critique of political economy and her understanding of capital accumulation, but also as a contribution to contemporary social-reproduction theory which aims to integrate Luxemburg’s legacy alongside that of Marx. The essay offers a sketch for a ‘Luxemburgian feminism’ consisting of (1) an overview of Luxemburg’s critique of bourgeois feminism and (2) a preliminary application of Luxemburg’s ‘dialectics of spatiality’ to contemporary social-reproduction theory. With Luxemburg’sThe Accumulation of Capitalin mind and her several essays on the so-called ‘women’s question’, we shall attempt to relate Luxemburg’s explanation of the dynamic link between capitalist and non-capitalist spatialities with the commodification of women’s reproductive labour.

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Gore, Ellie, and Genevieve LeBaron. "Using social reproduction theory to understand unfree labour." Capital & Class 43, no. 4 (October 29, 2019): 561–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309816819880787.

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Most scholarship within social reproduction theory focuses on women’s paid and unpaid care and domestic work, typically within the global North. Rarely has social reproduction theory grappled with unfree labour in commodity supply chains, particularly in the global South. However, these labour relations also involve gendered power relations that cut across the productive and reproductive realms of the economy, which can be illuminated by social reproduction theory analysis. In this article, we reflect on how social reproduction theory can be used to make sense of unfree labour’s role in global supply chains, expanding its geographical scope and the forms of labour exploitation encompassed within it. Conceptually, we harness the insights of social reproduction theory, and Jeffrey Harrod and Robert W Cox’s work on ‘unprotected work’ in the global economy to examine how gendered power relations shape patterns of unfree labour. Empirically, we analyse interview and survey data collected among cocoa workers in Ghana through LeBaron’s Global Business of Forced Labour project. We argue that social reproduction theory can move global supply chain scholarship beyond its presently economistic emphasis on the productive sphere and can shed light into the overlaps between social oppression, economic exploitation, and social reproduction.

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Farid, Shahzad, Saif Ur Rehman Saif Abbasi, and Qaisar Khalid Mahmood. "Modelling Bourdieusian Social Reproduction Theory." Social Indicators Research 157, no. 1 (March 8, 2021): 297–333. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-021-02649-z.

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Adams, Richard N. "Social Evolution and Social Reproduction." New Literary History 22, no. 4 (1991): 857. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/469069.

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Beekman, Madeleine, and Francis L. W. Ratnieks. "Power over reproduction in social Hymenoptera." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences 358, no. 1438 (August 31, 2003): 1741–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2002.1262.

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Inclusive fitness theory has been very successful in predicting and explaining much of the observed variation in the reproductive characteristics of insect societies. For example, the theory correctly predicts sex–ratio biasing by workers in relation to the queen's mating frequency. However, within an insect society there are typically multiple reproductive optima, each corresponding to the interest of different individual(s) or parties of interest. When multiple optima occur, which party's interests prevail? Presumably, the interests of the party with the greatest ‘power’; the ability to do or act. This article focuses on factors that influence power over colony reproduction. In particular, we seek to identify the principles that may cause different parties of interest to have greater or lesser power. In doing this, we discuss power from two different angles. On the one hand, we discuss general factors based upon non–idiosyncratic biological features (e.g. information, access to and ability to process food) that are likely to be important to all social Hymenoptera. On the other hand, we discuss idiosyncratic factors that depend upon the biology of a taxon at any hierarchical level. We propose that a better understanding of the diversity of reproductive characteristics of insect societies will come from combining inclusive fitness theory with a wide range of other factors that affect relative power in a conflict situation.

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Federici, Silvia, and Campbell Jones. "Counterplanning in the Crisis of Social Reproduction." South Atlantic Quarterly 119, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 153–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00382876-8007713.

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In this interview Silvia Federici discusses the prospects for counterplanning from below in the current crisis of social reproduction. The organization of care and social reproduction by capital, in alliance with governmental and non-governmental organizations, has created massive structural suffering and devalued vital social activities from which capital extracts value for which it pays nothing. As this crisis of social reproduction has developed internationally and taken on increasingly racialized forms, new and different forms of struggle over social reproduction have arisen. Starting from the Wages for Housework campaign and her 1975 call for “Counter-planning from the Kitchen,” Federici refines her thinking about the struggle over social reproduction and the reproductive commons today. She sketches the shifting grounds of the present crisis, and stresses what can be learned from current struggles over social reproduction in Africa, Latin America, and elsewhere, to organize and value social reproduction differently.

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Zhurzhenko, Tat'iana Iu. "Social Reproduction as a Problem in Feminist Theory." Russian Studies in History 40, no. 3 (December 2001): 70–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.2753/rsh1061-1983400370.

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Antyushin, Sergey S. "ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SOCIAL REPRODUCTION." Bulletin of the Moscow State Regional University (Philosophy), no. 1 (2019): 15–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.18384/2310-7227-2019-1-15-22.

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Wetherell, Charles. "Theory, Method, and Social Reproduction in Social Science History: A Short Jeremiad." Social Science History 23, no. 4 (1999): 491–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0145553200021842.

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Let me begin with a simple theme, repentance, and a simple message: repent from complacency in the practice and defense of social science history (SSH). I say this because I do not see social science historians meeting three major challenges that must be overcome if the larger, collective enterprise is to survive with the same vitality it had a decade ago. Those challenges are, first, to bring social theory forcefully back into historical research; second, to take formal methods to a new, higher level; and, third, to seek to train the next generation of social science historians in the theory and methods they will need in the next century.

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Lane, William A., and Kristie L. Seelman. "The Apparatus of Social Reproduction." Affilia 33, no. 2 (January 10, 2018): 154–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886109917747614.

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The apparatus of social reproduction describes the process by which knowledge production contributes to oppressive conditions. This article explains and defines this process through the application of a critical theoretical lens informed the Foucauldian concept of apparatus or dispositif and social reproduction as developed by feminist activists and intellectuals. This process has a notable influence on the political economic conditions of transgender women, conditions that include disproportionate reliance on the use of criminalized economies such as sex work. Social workers inadvertently influence this process through an overreliance on broad categorizations for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer populations, which impede our ability to adequately assess such complex oppressive social relationships. Increasing the profession’s familiarity and competence with critical theory is necessary to reduce our participation in such processes and identify effective interventions for this population. Presenting a review of social work literature and a discussion of the proposed lens, the following seeks to illuminate the apparatus of social reproduction and explain how broad social categorization of transgender women is problematic. The authors recommend the adoption of the proposed lens as a tool social workers can use to better assess their research and practice and better understand the complexities of power and exploitation.

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Mayevsky, V., and S. Malkov. "Perspectives of the macroeconomic Reproduction Theory." Voprosy Ekonomiki, no. 4 (April 20, 2014): 137–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2014-4-137-155.

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Prospects for the development of an alternative macroeconomic theory are associated with the provisions that the dynamics of the economy is determined by the change of generations of capital and that there is a problem of coordination between different generations of capital. The circulation and reproduction of capital are analyzed. We consider the socalled shifting mode of reproduction. The mathematic model has shown that coordinated growth is possible if social and economic interests between capital and labor are agreed, and monetary policy stimulates this growth.

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Green, Jonathan P., Michael A. Cant, and Jeremy Field. "Using social parasitism to test reproductive skew models in a primitively eusocial wasp." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281, no. 1789 (August 22, 2014): 20141206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.1206.

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Remarkable variation exists in the distribution of reproduction (skew) among members of cooperatively breeding groups, both within and between species. Reproductive skew theory has provided an important framework for understanding this variation. In the primitively eusocial Hymenoptera, two models have been routinely tested: concessions models, which assume complete control of reproduction by a dominant individual, and tug-of-war models, which assume on-going competition among group members over reproduction. Current data provide little support for either model, but uncertainty about the ability of individuals to detect genetic relatedness and difficulties in identifying traits conferring competitive ability mean that the relative importance of concessions versus tug-of-war remains unresolved. Here, we suggest that the use of social parasitism to generate meaningful variation in key social variables represents a valuable opportunity to explore the mechanisms underpinning reproductive skew within the social Hymenoptera. We present a direct test of concessions and tug-of-war models in the paper wasp Polistes dominulus by exploiting pronounced changes in relatedness and power structures that occur following replacement of the dominant by a congeneric social parasite. Comparisons of skew in parasitized and unparasitized colonies are consistent with a tug-of-war over reproduction within P. dominulus groups, but provide no evidence for reproductive concessions.

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Aranguren, Martin. "Emotional mechanisms of social (re)production." Social Science Information 54, no. 4 (September 17, 2015): 543–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0539018415598403.

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Since the 1960s various currents within social theory have been undermining the functionalist and structuralist conceptions of the human agent as a passive automaton moved by obscure forces. While the emerging picture emphasizes the part played by cognition, implicit skill, and explicit knowledge, much less attention has been paid to the role of emotions in the active production and reproduction of the social world. The specialized sub-field known as the sociology of emotions has brought to sociological attention the topic of emotions but has been preoccupied mainly with how social structures of various kinds determine or constrain situated emotions. The aim of this programmatic article is to demonstrate the theoretical plausibility and the empirical viability of research on emotional mechanisms of social production and reproduction. On the basis of a critical reappropriation of the theory of structuration and interaction ritual theory, face-work and sacred-object establishment (or ‘enshrinement’) arise as mechanisms of social production and reproduction of which situated emotions are inherently constitutive. The conclusion points to the need for social theory to develop a concept of motivation integrating the ‘pulling’ and ‘pushing’ duality of emotional intentions as expressed in situated action.

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Sato, Shigeki. "The Problem of Order and the Theory of Social Reproduction." Japanese Sociological Review 41, no. 3 (1990): 277–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.4057/jsr.41.277.

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Sadian, Samuel. "Consumer studies as critical social theory." Social Science Information 57, no. 2 (March 27, 2018): 273–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0539018418764850.

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A fundamental concern of all critical social theory has been relating economic action to socio-political action when explaining social change. Along with critical theories of socio-political praxis and critical theories of production and reproduction, critical consumer studies has at times sought to demonstrate how narrowly productivistic solutions to this problem can be updated or supplemented to fit better with observable historical events. However, consumer studies itself lacks conceptual coherency and is split between extending and rejecting major productivistic assumptions, making the wider significance of this literature difficult to identify. I argue that consumption and production are best understood conceptually as related moments in the material and symbolic circulation of value in circuits of market exchange, redistribution and reciprocity. Whether consumer action functions to reproduce anterior productive arrangements is a matter of historical contingency. The real benefit of consumer studies is the capacity to question and modify existing historical narratives, while serving also to generate its own insights. Consumer studies can help to systematically reveal the extent to which collective social action is patterned by class divisions, but it can also identify forms of collective association that do not reveal a basically class logic. Likewise, consumer action may reinforce the ‘distinction’ that Pierre Bourdieu has helped to theorize, but it can equally create the ‘mutuality of being’ of which Marshall Sahlins speaks. Moreover, consumer demand may indeed reproduce certain productive arrangements, as consumer critiques have always pointed out, but production is often a response to prior consumer demand, and rises or falls in relation to this. Instead of a priori assumptions about the manipulability of consumer demand, which make it easy to evade this enormous problem, situated analyses of specific fields of consumption are required that show how, when and where consumer action leads to reproduction or to real historical novelty.

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Zhu, Guo-Hua. "The reproduction of Benjamin’s theory of mechanical reproduction of art in China." Neohelicon 38, no. 1 (December 24, 2010): 71–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11059-010-0086-1.

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Lombardozzi, Lorena, and Frederick Harry Pitts. "Social form, social reproduction and social policy: Basic income, basic services, basic infrastructure." Capital & Class 44, no. 4 (September 18, 2019): 573–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309816819873323.

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Proponents recommend Universal Basic Income as a solution to a trifold crisis of work, wage and social democracy. Synthesising Marxian form analysis with Marxist-feminist social reproduction theory, this article suggests that these crises relate to historically specific capitalist social forms: labour, money and the state. These separate but interlocking crises of social form are temporary and contingent expressions of an underlying, permanent crisis of social reproduction. Mistaking the pervasive crisis of social reproduction in its totality for a temporary or contingent trifold crisis of work, wage or social democracy, Universal Basic Income proposals seek to solve it by moving through the same social forms through which they take effect, rather than confronting the social relations that constitute their antagonistic undertow and generate the crisis of social reproduction. The article considers two other solutions proposed to handle the deeper-rooted crisis with which Universal Basic Income grapples: Universal Basic Services and Universal Basic Infrastructure. Both propose non-monetary ways past the impasses of the Universal Basic Income, addressing much more directly the constrained basis of individual and collective reproduction that characterises capitalist social relations. But they retain a link with capitalist social forms of money and state that may serve to close rather than open the path to real alternatives. The article concludes that the contradictions these ‘abstract universals’ touch upon are best mediated through more bottom-up and struggle-based ‘concrete universals’ that address the manifold crises of work, wage and social democracy that undergird them. Such alternatives would leave open dynamic tensions around work and welfare in contemporary capitalism without promise of their incomplete resolution in the name of a false universality unattainable in a world characterised by antagonism, domination and crisis.

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Pourdian, Mohammad, Mohammad Hassani, and Afshar Kabiri. "Empirical Evaluation of Social and Cultural Reproduction Theory in Acquiring Graduate Education." Review of European Studies 8, no. 3 (June 13, 2016): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/res.v8n3p81.

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<p>The purpose of this study is to empirically evaluate social and cultural reproduction theory in the pursuit of education. Thus, the theory of social reproduction, cultural reproduction and social capital have been utilized to develop the theoretical framework. The research type in regard to its goal is applied and in regard to data collection method is survey research. A questionnaire has been used to collect data. Population of this research covered all graduate students of West Azerbaijan province universities in the academic year 1392-1393 (n=9352, according to available statistics) among them 132 students were selected randomly as research sample through multi stage cluster sampling. To test the research hypotheses, Pearson correlation, multiple regression and path analysis technique have been employed. Empirical findings indicate that independent variables including socio-economic status, social capital and cultural capital affect academic success of students in pursuing higher education.</p>

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Galbraith, David A., Sarah D. Kocher, Tom Glenn, Istvan Albert, Greg J. Hunt, Joan E. Strassmann, David C. Queller, and Christina M. Grozinger. "Testing the kinship theory of intragenomic conflict in honey bees (Apis mellifera)." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, no. 4 (January 11, 2016): 1020–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1516636113.

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Sexual reproduction brings genes from two parents (matrigenes and patrigenes) together into one individual. These genes, despite being unrelated, should show nearly perfect cooperation because each gains equally through the production of offspring. However, an individual’s matrigenes and patrigenes can have different probabilities of being present in other relatives, so kin selection could act on them differently. Such intragenomic conflict could be implemented by partial or complete silencing (imprinting) of an allele by one of the parents. Evidence supporting this theory is seen in offspring–mother interactions, with patrigenes favoring acquisition of more of the mother's resources if some of the costs fall on half-siblings who do not share the patrigene. The kinship theory of intragenomic conflict is little tested in other contexts, but it predicts that matrigene–patrigene conflict may be rife in social insects. We tested the hypothesis that honey bee worker reproduction is promoted more by patrigenes than matrigenes by comparing across nine reciprocal crosses of two distinct genetic stocks. As predicted, hybrid workers show reproductive trait characteristics of their paternal stock, (indicating enhanced activity of the patrigenes on these traits), greater patrigenic than matrigenic expression, and significantly increased patrigenic-biased expression in reproductive workers. These results support both the general prediction that matrigene–patrigene conflict occurs in social insects and the specific prediction that honey bee worker reproduction is driven more by patrigenes. The success of these predictions suggests that intragenomic conflict may occur in many contexts where matrigenes and patrigenes have different relatednesses to affected kin.

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Guild, Craig M. "Social Reproduction Theory in the Academic Library: Understanding the Implications of Socially Reproductive Labor as Labor." Public Services Quarterly 15, no. 3 (July 3, 2019): 263–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15228959.2019.1629859.

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Ndiweni, Esinath, Faizul Haque, and Mostafa Kamal Hassan. "Corporate social responsibility practices of banks in Bangladesh: a structuration theory perspective." Investment Management and Financial Innovations 15, no. 1 (April 3, 2018): 350–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/imfi.15(1).2018.29.

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The aim of this paper is to illuminate the role of the socio-economic, cultural and religious context in shaping corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices of banks in Bangladesh. The authors utilize content analysis of annual reports and websites of banks to identify CSR activities in healthcare, education and financial inclusion sectors. Structuration theory (ST) is used to explain how interactions between bank managers (as agents) with the social structures (institutions and government) shape CSR practices. The findings show that banks’ engagement in CSR activities is embedded in the social fabric of Bangladesh and not a result of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). It is also noted that Islamic banks focus their CSR activities on social justice, while other banks target education and other humanitarian issues. The authors contribute to the literature on the determinants of CSR by revealing the rationalizations of different actors in the production and reproduction of CSR practices in Bangladesh, an insight attributed to ST. The researchers conclude that Islamic beliefs influenced managers to mitigate poverty through CSR investments.

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Dong, Yige. "Spinners or sitters? Regimes of social reproduction and urban Chinese workers’ employment choices." International Journal of Comparative Sociology 61, no. 2-3 (April 2020): 200–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020715220946074.

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Despite China being the world’s factory, its labor market is now primarily service-based with a high level of informality. When formal manufacturing and informal service sectors co-exist, how do workers make their choices? While existing literature focuses on rural migrant workers’ experience in the Chinese labor system, this study extends the analytical scope to low-skill urban workers. Drawing on archival, interview, and ethnographic data in a large industrial city in central China, I compare urban women’s different trajectories in textile manufacturing and informal domestic service. Building on labor regime studies and Social Reproduction Theory, I develop a framework called “regimes of social reproduction” to explain workers’ job choices. I argue that China’s post-socialist industrial restructuring has given rise to a public–private hybrid regime of social reproduction, which keeps workers’ pension and healthcare schemes in the public domain and pushes childcare, elderly care, and domestic work to the private sphere and then marketizes them. For urban workers, when choosing between formal manufacturing and informal service, it is their position within the regime of social reproduction that plays a decisive role. Their position is assessed along the following two dimensions: (1) the degree of a worker’s dependency on the employment-based welfare provisions and (2) the degree of demand for reproductive labor in a worker’s family. Challenging the conventional view that formal manufacturing jobs are more desirable than informal service jobs, I conclude that under the current regime of social reproduction, the booming informal service market may provide some best earning opportunities for low-skilled urban workers. However, the same regime has also set significant limits on such opportunities as these urbanites’ availability to work is highly contingent on (lack of) demand for reproductive labor from their own family.

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Corsaro, William A. "Big Ideas from Little People: What Research with Children Contributes to Social Psychology." Social Psychology Quarterly 83, no. 1 (February 15, 2020): 5–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0190272520906412.

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Beginning in the 1970s, research in childhood studies led to the reevaluation of children’s agency and their contributions to society. In my work on children’s interactions with peers and adults in schools and families, I challenged traditional views of socialization offering the alternative view of interpretive reproduction and associated concepts of peer culture and priming events. I review the development of these concepts and the importance of longitudinal comparative ethnography and audiovisual recording for capturing how research with children contributes both to rigorous reexamination of socialization theory and the field of social psychology more generally. In particular, I focus on the expansion of two theoretical concepts in my work related to the general notion of interpretive reproduction: (1) nonlinear and collective reproductive versus linear stage views of socialization and human development and (2) micro dramas in collective routines in peer culture. In the review of my methods and theory and in the expansion of my theoretical concepts, I continually raise issues regarding reexamination of Mead’s play and game stage and for the need to radically alter or even abandon the traditional concept of socialization.

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Kaminski, Phyllis H. "“Reproducing the World”: Mary O'Brien's Theory of Reproductive Consciousness and Implications for Feminist Incarnational Theology." Horizons 19, no. 2 (1992): 240–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0360966900026244.

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AbstractMary O'Brien has inspired a vigorous reexamination of the concept and practices of reproduction. Her philosophy of birth reclaims this central female experience from the existentialist category of unconscious immanence. This article sketches O'Brien's theory and suggests how her reappraisal of reproductive process sheds light on the contradictions in traditional messages about biological difference, the nature of women, and the meaning of motherhood. It illustrates its claim by reading one such message, John Paul II's Mulieris Dignitatem, in light of O'Brien's work, and argues that using the bio-social process of reproduction as an analytic tool helps overcome dualisms and can further feminist insights into incarnation as a dynamic principle of creation. It invites further reflection on embodiment, birth, and motherhood as theological concepts.

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Shimoji, Hiroyuki, Tomonori Kikuchi, Hitoshi Ohnishi, Noritsugu Kikuta, and Kazuki Tsuji. "Social enforcement depending on the stage of colony growth in an ant." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285, no. 1875 (March 28, 2018): 20172548. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.2548.

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Altruism is a paradox in Darwinian evolution. Policing is an important mechanism of the evolution and maintenance of altruism. A recently developed dynamic game model incorporating colony demography and inclusive fitness predicts that, in hymenopteran social insects, policing behaviour enforcing reproductive altruism in group members depends strongly on the colony growth stage, with strong policing as the colony develops and a relaxation of policing during the reproductive phase. Here, we report clear evidence supporting this prediction. In the ant Diacamma sp., reproduction by workers was suppressed by worker policing when the colony was small, whereas in large, mature colonies worker policing was relaxed and worker-produced males emerged. Conditional expression of traits can provide strong empirical evidence for natural selection theory if the expression pattern is precisely predicted by the theory, and our results illustrate the importance of intracolony population dynamics in the evolution of social systems.

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Steinfield, Laurel, and Diane Holt. "Toward A Theory on the Reproduction of Social Innovations in Subsistence Marketplaces." Journal of Product Innovation Management 36, no. 6 (September 27, 2019): 764–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12510.

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Herz, Marcus, and Thomas Johansson. "‘Doing’ Social Work: Critical Considerations on Theory and Practice in Social Work." Advances in Social Work 13, no. 3 (June 26, 2012): 527–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.18060/1976.

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Social work is a multi-dimensional and contradictory field of practice, which often leads to theoretical confusion. Another tendency within social work today is the development of an evidence-based practice. This kind of social engineering, together with the theoretical confusion, might lead to the reproduction and strengthening of dominant discourses and perspectives. Pointing out the need for critical theory to transgress and resist hegemonic practices, the article aims to present ideas on how to theoretically position social work practice within a framework of critical theory. The question is how to combine an ambition to develop suitable methods and to anchor social work in a sound social-scientific context with critical theories concerning, for instance, gender, ethnicity, and class. It is suggested that a movement towards a more deconstructive and reflexive mode of thinking and practicing social work, ‘doing social work’, would enable the field to become more ethical and reflexive.

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Daubigney, Jean-Pierre. "La théorie des groupes non compétitifs." Articles 55, no. 2 (June 29, 2009): 246–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/800827ar.

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In this paper, the author describes and criticizes the theory of non-competitive groups. According to this theory, the non-competitivity of social groups refers to the existence and the reproduction by heredity of a bi-univocal correspondence between the hierarchy of social groups and the hierarchy of employments. Such a relation comes from the fact that the social origins determine the level of education, the distribution of inborn qualities, and the preference functions of individuals. It is also the result of the demographic reproduction pattern of social groups. In such conditions, the incomes hierarchy is the result as well as the means of the hereditary reproduction of social structure and of non-competitivity. Two basic criticisms can be formulated. First, this theory is unable to justify most of the relation underlying the analysis. Second, the proposed explanation model is unable to account for the contemporary ways of non-competitivity such as indicated by the statistics on social mobility.

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Varela, Paula. "La reproducción social en disputa: un debate entre autonomistas y marxistas." Archivos de historia del movimiento obrero y la izquierda, no. 16 (March 22, 2020): 71–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.46688/ahmoi.n16.241.

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Este texto aborda el debate, teórico-político, entre la visión autonomista y la visión marxista de la reproducción social. Para hacerlo, nos basamos en el reciente dossier publicado por la revista Radical Philosophy “Social Reproduction Theory”, cuya presentación está escrita por Silvia Federici y su artículo teórico por Alessandra Mezzadri. El núcleo duro del dossier está dirigido a polemizar con las posiciones sostenidas en el libro de Tithi Bhattacharya Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Opression. Presentamos aquí una “crítica de la crítica” para proponer una lectura de la Teoría de la Reproducción Social en tanto teoría de la relación entre producción y reproducción en la sociedad capitalista.

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Green, Bill. "READING REPRODUCTION THEORY: On the Ideology‐and‐Education Debate." Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 6, no. 2 (April 1986): 1–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0159630860060201.

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Mickelson, Roslyn Arlin. "The Case of the Missing Brackets: Teachers and Social Reproduction." Journal of Education 169, no. 2 (April 1987): 78–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002205748716900206.

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Researchers have established the existence of class-based hidden curricula and their role in social reproduction. However, critics of reproduction theories argue that models of reproduction are often mechanistic and that they overlook the resistance and contradiction in schools. Previous research on social reproduction in the schools, by and large, described teacher practices, classroom relationships, and curricula-in-use, leaving the reader to infer the influence of these forces on student behavior. This essay joins the debate by offering a small but dramatic example of how the hidden curriculum penetrates a student's consciousness. In the course of conducting research on another topic, the author observed several unexpected but vivid examples of classroom behavior which reflect the ways that students from various tracks and class backgrounds are socialized for their likely destination in the workforce. Students' reactions to missing brackets on a questionnaire followed definitive patterns predicted by reproduction theory. Observations were made in over 60 classrooms in nine comprehensive public high schools in the Los Angeles area. This article reports these observations and draws upon relevant literature, as well as the author's teaching experiences, to discuss the implications of these findings.

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Amarasinghe, Harindra E., Crisenthiya I. Clayton, and Eamonn B. Mallon. "Methylation and worker reproduction in the bumble-bee ( Bombus terrestris )." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281, no. 1780 (April 7, 2014): 20132502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2502.

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Insects are at the dawn of an epigenetics era. Numerous social insect species have been found to possess a functioning methylation system, previously not thought to exist in insects. Methylation, an epigenetic tag, may be vital for the sociality and division of labour for which social insects are renowned. In the bumble-bee Bombus terrestris , we found methylation differences between the genomes of queenless reproductive workers and queenless non-reproductive workers. In a follow up experiment, queenless workers whose genomes had experimentally altered methylation were more aggressive and more likely to develop ovaries compared with control queenless workers. This shows methylation is important in this highly plastic reproductive division of labour. Methylation is an epigenetic tag for genomic imprinting (GI). It is intriguing that the main theory to explain the evolution of GI predicts that GI should be important in this worker reproduction behaviour.

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Johnstone-Louis, Mary. "Corporate Social Responsibility and Women’s Entrepreneurship: Towards a More Adequate Theory of “Work”." Business Ethics Quarterly 27, no. 4 (May 16, 2017): 569–602. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/beq.2017.6.

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ABSTRACT:Programs aimed at increasing women’s entrepreneurship are a rapidly proliferating class of CSR initiatives across the globe with participation by many of the world’s largest corporations. The gendered nature of this phenomenon suggests that feminist approaches to CSR may offer a particularly salient mode of their analysis. In this article, I argue that insights from feminist economics regarding the historically prevalent—but narrow and gendered—definition of work, which artificially separates production from reproduction, provide fruitful tools for theory building when conceptualizing gender through the lens of CSR. I demonstrate that the gendered separation of production and reproduction is typicallytaken as givenin entrepreneurship, and that mainstream CSR research has not sufficiently challenged this perspective. I present a conceptual framework of what is to be gained by examining the CSR, entrepreneurship, and feminist economics literatures in combination, and demonstrate how researchers might use this framework for future research.

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Truong, Thanh-Dam. "Gender, International Migration and Social Reproduction: Implications for Theory, Policy, Research and Networking." Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 5, no. 1 (March 1996): 27–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/011719689600500103.

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This paper aims to contribute to the development of an analytical framework that provides the space for the understanding of female migrants as reproductive workers in a cross-national transfer of labor. It will first provide some hypothetical guidelines for the explanation of female migration in the context of reproductive labor. Based on accessible data, a discussion on the case of Japan will be presented to highlight the main issues and problems concerning female migrants as reproductive workers. Finally, implications on policy-making and networking at the international and national level will be analyzed and discussed, taking into account the specific ideological, political and socio-economic constraints.

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Bueskens, Petra. "Mothers reproducing the social: Chodorow and beyond." Journal of Psychosocial Studies 13, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 65–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/147867320x15803493144767.

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In The reproduction of mothering, Nancy Chodorow laid the blueprint for understanding mothers and daughters in their intricate psychosexual identification and differentiation. Synthesising object relations theory with feminist sociological concerns regarding gender equality, and the psychosocial reproduction not just of mothering but also of misogyny, Chodorow brought together complex psychoanalytic theory with feminist utopian projects. The mother‐daughter relationship had been hitherto dismissed in orthodox psychoanalysis as irrelevant to the central Oedipal drama. In situating mother‐daughter relations both within the classic ‘family romance’, and also prior to and constitutive of it, Chodorow bequeathed a critically important legacy. She provided a new psychological language for understanding female subjectivity, inclusive of yet differentiating the mother’s and the daughter’s subjectivity. This article reviews Chodorow’s classic work, The reproduction of mothering, while also extending her original formulation to a contemporary understanding of changing gendered social relations. Drawing on the recent work of Alison Stone, I elucidate the process of not only reproducing but also reinventing mothering. From here, I tentatively explore how mothers are symbolically and actually ‘reproducing the social’; or, taking their maternal identities into civil society and transforming that society to incorporate and reflect their interests. Citizen mothers, I argue, have the potential to transform human relations, economies and polities, integrating an ‘ethic of care’ with an ‘ethic of justice’. The last section of this article explores the emergence of ‘autonomous mothers’ and their impact.

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Faircloth, Charlotte, and Zeynep B. Gürtin. "Fertile Connections: Thinking across Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Parenting Culture Studies." Sociology 52, no. 5 (April 3, 2017): 983–1000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038517696219.

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While studies of ‘parenting culture’ and ‘assisted reproductive technologies’ are now well-established areas of social science scholarship, so far, the potential connections between the two fields have not been significantly explored. Responding to calls for a more ‘processual’ approach to studying reproduction in order to make clearer contributions to sociological theory more broadly, we begin a dialogue between these mutually relevant bodies of literature, highlighting connections and crosscutting findings. We focus on four interlinked themes – Reflexivity, Gender, Expertise and Stratification – and promote a more holistic approach to understanding how children are conceived and cared for within the current ‘Euro-American’ reproductive landscape. By way of conclusion, we draw attention to the contemporary context of ‘anxious reproduction’ and propose directions for future research.

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Korostelina, Karina. "Reproduction of Conflict in History Teaching in Ukraine: A Social Identity Theory Analysis." Identity 15, no. 3 (July 3, 2015): 221–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15283488.2015.1057283.

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Fernandes, João Viegas. "From the Theories of Social and Cultural Reproduction to the Theory of Resistance." British Journal of Sociology of Education 9, no. 2 (June 1988): 169–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0142569880090203.

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Throsby, Karen. "Negotiating “normality” when IVF fails." Narrative Inquiry 12, no. 1 (September 26, 2002): 43–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.12.1.09thr.

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This article argues that the dominant social and cultural representations of IVF as successful, and of reproduction as the natural and inevitable life course, particularly for women, offer those for whom treatment fails a limited set of discursive resources through which to make sense of that experience. The article explores the ways in which those resources are both deployed and resisted by those who have experienced treatment failure, and who have since stopped treatment, in order to establish themselves as “normal”. It is argued that through the construction of themselves as meeting rather than transgressing the normative social and cultural reproductive standards, the participants can be seen to discretely subvert and redefine the dominant discourses of both technology and reproduction, even while appearing to shore them up.

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Lange, Elena Louisa. "Gendercraft: Marxism–Feminism, Reproduction, and the Blind Spot of Money." Science & Society 85, no. 1 (January 2021): 38–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/siso.2021.85.1.38.

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The plausibility of “gendered exploitation” as a sine qua non of capitalism, as articulated by both classic Marxist–feminism since the 1970s and more recently by authors of social reproduction theory, stands or falls with the evaluation of Marx's theory of value. From the standpoint of both Marx's monetary theory of value and the problem of quantification, the use of “women's oppression” in capitalist social reproduction appears to be questionable. This also necessitates a deeper analysis of the use of “gender” in the wider field of pertinent Marxist–feminist literature. Arguments for “gendered exploitation” often hinge on unsound premises that introduce a naturalizing view of social relations. Analogous to Barbara and Karen Fields' intervention against “Racecraft,” the term “Gendercraft” may represent this argumentative move. The notion of gender as the site of specifically capitalist exploitation is thus challenged and countered with a new emphasis on struggles against the wage relation as the site of anticapitalist resistance.

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McLeod, Julie. "Reproduction Theory and Feminism in Education: Looking back, thinking now." Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 26, no. 2 (June 2005): 263–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01596300500143237.

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De Angelis, Massimo. "Social Reproduction and the Transformation at the Edge of Chaos." South Atlantic Quarterly 118, no. 4 (October 1, 2019): 747–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00382876-7825588.

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In this article, I want to explore some complexities of a politics grounded on social reproduction. Among the many possible objectives of the commons, the most important for the purpose of thinking through a process of trans-formative social change are those that aim at reclaiming the conditions of social reproduction and subject these to new value practices. A politics based on social reproduction would imply the progressive subtraction of social and natural wealth and labor time from the control of capital, and their (re)production and circulation in the processes of the commons. The complexity of this progressive subtraction must of course be pointed out, because the power of capital is founded on a complex assemblage of social relations, resources, discourses and narratives, rights, state policies, and, ultimately, the institutionalized monopoly of violence that aims at protecting and increasing this power. For this reason, any viable strategy of postcapitalist transformation must rely on the disarticulation of these assemblages while at the same time reproducing bodies and ecosystems. Hence the focus on social reproduction.

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Becker, D. Vaughn, and Douglas T. Kenrick. "Selfish goals serve more fundamental social and biological goals." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37, no. 2 (April 2014): 137–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x13001957.

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AbstractProximate selfish goals reflect the machinations of more fundamental goals such as self-protection and reproduction. Evolutionary life history theory allows us to make predictions about which goals are prioritized over others, which stimuli release which goals, and how the stages of cognitive processing are selectively influenced to better achieve the aims of those goals.

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Sheoran, Nayantara, Daisy Deomampo, and Cecilia Van Hollen. "Extending Theory, Rupturing Boundaries: Reproduction, Health, and Medicine Beyond North-South Binaries." Medical Anthropology 34, no. 3 (December 9, 2014): 185–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2014.981263.

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MacInnes, John, and Julio Pérez Díaz. "The Reproductive Revolution." Sociological Review 57, no. 2 (May 2009): 262–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.2009.01829.x.

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We suggest that a third revolution alongside the better known economic and political ones has been vital to the rise of modernity: the reproductive revolution, comprising a historically unrepeatable shift in the efficiency of human reproduction which for the first time brought demographic security. As well as highlighting the contribution of demographic change to the rise of modernity and addressing the limitations of orthodox theories of the demographic transition, the concept of the reproductive revolution offers a better way to integrate sociology and demography. The former has tended to pay insufficient heed to sexual reproduction, individual mortality and the generational replacement of population, while the latter has undervalued its own distinctive theoretical contribution, portraying demographic change as the effect of causes lying elsewhere. We outline a theory of the reproductive revolution, review some relevant supporting empirical evidence and briefly discuss its implications both for demographic transition theory itself, and for a range of key social changes that we suggest it made possible: the decline of patriarchy and feminisation of the public sphere, the deregulation and privatisation of sexuality, family change, the rise of identity, ‘low’ fertility and ‘population ageing’.

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Collins, Randall, Janet Saltzman Chafetz, Rae Lesser Blumberg, Scott Coltrane, and Jonathan H. Turner. "Toward an Integrated Theory of Gender Stratification." Sociological Perspectives 36, no. 3 (September 1993): 185–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1389242.

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Determinants of gender stratification range through every institutional sphere and every level of sociological analysis. An integrated theory is presented which charts the connections and feedbacks among three main blocks of causal factors and two blocks of outcomes. The GENDER ORGANIZATION OF PRODUCTION block includes the degree of compatibility between productive and reproductive labor, and determinants of the gender segregation of productive labor (including flows from other blocks). The GENDER ORGANIZATION OF REPRODUCTION includes demographic conditions, the social control of reproductive technologies, and the class and gender organization of parenting. SEXUAL POLITICS includes historical variations in family alliance politics, erotic status markets, and violent male groups. On the outcome side, GENDER RESOURCE MOBILIZATION centers on gender income and property, household organization, sexual coercion, and the distinctiveness of gender cultures. GENDER CONFLICTS involve the conditions for both gender movements and counter-movements, which feed back into the prior blocks of causal conditions. Despite rises in women's gender resources in recent decades, it is likely that gender conflicts will go on in new forms. An integrated theory makes it possible to examine alternative scenarios and policies of change in gender stratification of the future.

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Embrick, David G., and Wendy Leo Moore. "White Space(s) and the Reproduction of White Supremacy." American Behavioral Scientist 64, no. 14 (December 2020): 1935–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002764220975053.

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In the past two decades, social scientists have begun to explicitly interrogate the racialized economic, political, cultural, and ideological mechanisms of social space. This work interrogates the overt and covert racial organization of social spaces and the ways in which systemic White supremacy is facilitated by racialized space. Drawing on and synthesizing that work we explicate a critical theory of White space, explicating how geographical, physical, cultural, and ideological social spaces reproduce a racialized social structure organized by White supremacy. We argue that White spaces are integral to racialized social systems and global anti-Black racism in ways that not only normalize the existing racial and social order but ensures Whites’ fantasy(ies) of complete dominion over place and space, as well as control over brown and Black bodies.

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Lambirth, Andrew. "Poetry under control: Social reproduction strategies and children’s literature." English in Education 41, no. 3 (September 2007): 94–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-8845.2007.tb01168.x.

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Kaufmann, Franz-Xaver. "Towards a theory of the welfare state." European Review 8, no. 3 (July 2000): 291–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1062798700004920.

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The understanding of welfare states hitherto suffers from characteristic biases – national, political and disciplinary. This paper proposes a generalized framework for international comparative research, which remains as neutral as possible to such biases. The guarantee of social rights for everybody and the issue of societal reproduction are taken as reference points to define the political criteria for social welfare. However, politics and social policies remain a partial aspect of the production of welfare in a given society. A theory of the welfare state has to take into account the interactions among household production, market production and associative forms of welfare production, on the one side, and of political interventions on the other.

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Journal articles on the topic 'Social reproduction theory'

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