HDFS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Conflict Management, Social Darwinism, Evolution
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People may feel uncomfortable answering personal questions. Difficult because we look through our own lens. Numerical analyses of people"s responses or specific characteristics. Collects data about people by observation in natural habitat. Most important event in history of humanity since domestication of animals, plants; fire. Increase in #, size of western cities. Transformations in the average level of education of the population. Physical separation of work from family household. Possibility: technological revolution work into the household. By mid-19th century strong interest in social change & family issues. Much of our thinking today is dominated by this time period. Men went off to the factory work (earned $). Women stayed home caretaking (did not earn $). Fundamental shift: producing most of what the family consumes consuming/buying what the family needs. Familial mode of production: labor market mode of production. Concept: origin of families will tell us where families are going (through all stages).