SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Viviana Zelizer, Class Conflict
19 Aug 2016
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Settled agriculture: diminishes communal aspect of family. Land ownership makes family more isolated from community. Marriage becomes more powerful because of property, women more stuck in relationship. More children than foragers because more valuable, less costly. Previously, family was production unit, now almost completely a con- sumption unit. 1st phase: men leave to work, gender roles strengthen, spousal interdependence increases. 2nd phase: men & women work outside house, weaker gender roles, divorce in- creases, even fewer children. With these changes, patriarchy begins to weaken, and the roles of family members change. Biology: shapes the form of contemporary families. Commonly consist of couple with biological offspring. Motherhood, fatherhood, childhood: despite biological basis, great variation in familial roles over time and place. Roles that depend on the social context. Social construction: many sociologists go so far as to claim that motherhood, fa- therhood, and childhood are social constructs. Maxine margolis, putting mothers on the pedestal .
