User:Dandelion1984/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Social reproduction

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article to evaluate because it relates to our class topic: Gender, Welfare, and Poverty. Social reproduction as a concept is important in understanding how existing social relations reproduce each other, which includes gendered relations. My preliminary impression of this article is that it is carefully organized and includes a lot of helpful definitions.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

The article has a nice lead section. It briefly goes over the development of this term by various scholars and what it means (a short and sweet definition). Everything in the article is related to the concept of social reproduction. However, this page did not cite many credible sources. I only found 11 in the bibliography but I feel like for a concept this grand, much more credible sources is needed. Furthermore, a lot of the concepts cited other Wikipedia articles, which are not credible sources.

The talk page has a discussion on how to utilize the talk page and how Karl Marx should be cited. There is also an outline suggestion but it is not incorporated into the article. This article was a part of a course assignment on Wikiedu.

Overall, I think this article is a good starting point. It could use more credible sources and information on different school of thoughts on the concept of social reproduction. I am not seeing diverse perspectives on this page.