SOCIOL 2U06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Family Wage, Social Inequality, Impermanence
6 Oct 2016
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Historical and cross-cultural perspectives pre industrial society. Tilly and scott, fox chapter 5, the family economy in modern england and. Single people were viewed as problems because they are dependant on others. Even with child custody or marriage breakdown, the men decided the law: middle of 19th century, finally the women can take control of her kids, property laws favoured men as well. After, women could own land as well: inheritance laws favoured men as well. Rare for women to takeover her male"s property after he dies. Women"s labour valued: you need both labour to survive, broad compared to industrial times, pre-industrialization, men are not the only economic providers. Male legal authority: once a women gets married, she"s a legal dependence of her husband. Social inequality: oldest son is most lucky . Layers of dependency: women not having any legal status of their own, wives being dependent on their husbands.
