SOC 2104 Study Guide - Final Guide: Tokenism, Orgasm, Sex Segregation
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We often have misplaced nostalgia a romanticized version of what family forms looked like in the 1950s and 1960s. Nuclear family structures were important everywhere, not just to european cultures. However, aboriginal structures often included multiple extended family members which arranged into a clan structure. Sexual contracts were important in some aboriginal structures but varied widely between groups. Some groups granted men more status, but many of them were egalitarian or practiced gender complementarity. Pre-contact aboriginal families cannot be described as patriarchal. Men"s and women"s work was often separate but occurred in the same spaces. In pre-industrial canada, just as women and men were involved in the worlds of work, fathers and mothers were both involved in children. Through industrialization, there was a gap created between work and home known better as the separation of spheres. Family life was wrenched apart from the world of work and the workplace and home became clearly defined separates.
