“To Cook, Sew, to Be a Man”: The Socialization for Competence and Black Men's Involvement in Housework
“To Cook, Sew, to Be a Man”: The Socialization for Competence and Black Men's Involvement in Housework
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“做饭、缝纫、做人”：能力社会化和黑人参与家务劳动
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2006
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Vânia Penha
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Vânia Penha
黑人儿童做家务的背景及其对成年人行为的影响相对未被探索。本文分析了45名黑人父亲的回忆有关执行家务时，他们的孩子和他们参与家务作为成年人的相关性。父亲相对较多地参与家务劳动，这是因为他们中的大多数人在男孩时经历了“能力社会化”。能力社会化的四个维度是：儿童时期实际完成的家务、完成家务的方式、分配家务的理由以及父母让孩子从事家务的理由。虽然儿童时期的能力社会化并没有统一地转化为男性平等分担家务，但它消除了作为成年人抵制家务的借口的无能。
The context in which Black children do housework and its effect on adult behavior have been relatively unexplored. This article presents analyses of the recollections of 45 Black fathers of young children about performing household chores when they were children and its relevance for their involvement in housework as adults. The fathers' relatively high involvement in housework is traced to the ‘socialization for competence’ that most of them experienced as boys. Four dimensions in the socialization for competence are discussed: the actual household chores done in childhood, the ways of performing them, the rationale for assigning them, and parents' justifications for making children engage in housework. Although the childhood socialization for competence does not translate uniformly into men's sharing housework equally, it takes away ineptitude as an excuse for resisting housework as adults.