The dichotomy between this week’s two topics was a fascinating insight into the common habits and disorders related to people\u2019s personal space, which fascinatingly enough, translate into important societal implications and have even highlighted some of the issues of socioeconomic class and gender that we are still feeling the effects of today. To focus my attention on Tuesday\u2019s readings, I enjoyed that the study highlighted modern cleaning practices focused on a decent array of people living in different situations. I think that this was an effective method of fairly communicating ideas about modern living practices instead of comparing how things were in the past (nuclear family) with today\u2019s equivalent. I appreciated that the study highlighted how societal norms have changed in terms of how we approach cleaning and acknowledging more alternatives. This worked well in conjunction with the other reading on cleaning, although I must acknowledge that that went over a general American\/euro-centric overview of cleaning. However, it did provide some valuable insight into how cleaning is related to class and socioeconomic struggle by giving cleaners more \u2018identity\u2019 throughout time, whether it be a specific group of people or the prevailing thoughts behind what meant clean and what didn\u2019t. To relate a discussion in class to today\u2019s readings, although in the modern age, we would like to believe our views our progressive, we are often still impacted by outdated ideologies concerning individuals’ roles in society. A great example of this is when we consider that most young couples don\u2019t believe that they assign housework to a specific sex, it is often females that still do most of the housework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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