This week we talked about technology itself and how this technology is affecting our lives. This week two articles talked about the down side of technology. Reading these two articles brought up some new thoughts that I have never considered. Living in the 21st century, technology has always been acknowledged as a helpful tool in […]
Technology is Everywhere
Technology has the power to change and alter the way we live our lives in many ways that most of us don’t even realize because we now see it as the norm. A perfect example of this could our class discussion: we were asked how many of us now have built in laundry rooms in […]
Technological Advancement
This week in class has been interesting. Our discussions in class have begun to drift towards our cultural reliance on machinery, and how evolved it has become over the past half century. In the article “Laboring Under The Digital Divide”, Michelle Rodino-Colocino speaks a lot about the new wave of emerging technologies, the creation of […]
Modern Mothers
Margaret Corrigan In the article “More Work for Mother”, we learned about new advancements that have been added to many households. This article talked about the new advancements that were being made to create a more family-oriented atmosphere in the household. During class it was mentioned that […]
Modernization of the Home
In the article “More Work for Mother,” Ruth Cowan explains how the American home had become industrialized. Over the last century and a half, the rise of modernization for people’s homes has changed dramatically. The advancements that were supposed to make a person’s life easy or more manageable were actually a double-edged sword. A good […]
culture technology
the technology does changed our lives a lot. nowadays, we cannot imagine the day without electricity and internet. it brings us a lots of convince. however, does it brings us some other things beside convince? the answer is obvious. like the article “more work for mother” said, “a work process that is as different from her […]
Technology and Relationships
The book chapter by Cowan entitled More work for Mother argued that housework as changed since the industrialization. It says that industrialization was not limited to factories, but was very much incorporated into the home. The idea is that we are no longer self-sufficient. Instead, we have washers and dryers, dishwashers, garbage disposals, refrigerators, freezers, […]
Industrialization?
In the article written by Cowan, it discusses the industrialization not just within society but within the home. I found the article very interesting from the stand point that I had never thought that industrialization was something that happened in the house. But, as the article went on it became clear that it was something […]
Industrialization in the home and technology
The article “More Work For Mother” discusses the industrialization of the American household in great detail. The reading talks about how life and technology in the household has changed over past generations. One thing the article brought up that I found interesting was the fact that as these industrialized products began to expand […]
Technology
Throughout the article ‘More Work for Mother’ and our class discussions, we have learned that the industrial revolution advancements and technology inventions have shaped what our ‘households’ are today. Depending on your class determined how fast or slow this transition occurred. The article by ____ states that, “women’s work has been differentiated from men’s by […]