SOC 2104 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sex Segregation, The Hidden Curriculum, Teenage Pregnancy
6 Jul 2017
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Weeks 6/8 family: gender at the heart of the home- chapter 6. A brief history of the canadian family: aboriginal families pre-colonization: overlapping nuclear family, extended family, and clan structures; practised gender complementarity. Post-colonization: separate but complementary work for men and women, often in the same location and time. Ideology largely white, middle-class, but applied to all. Large scale immigration, fear of race suicide": move to assimilate canadian aboriginal peoples through indian act and residential schools, women had been demanding rights since 1850s. 1870s canadian women began to lobby for vote; granted 1918 (to some women); era of the new woman". First and second world wars disrupted women"s new freedoms; post- Since 1980s there has been growing inequality: canada"s child poverty rate is second-worst amongst industrialized nations (highest in bc) Significantly higher for children of single mothers and aboriginal families: canadian families getting smaller since 1971.
