SOCIOL 2PP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Infant Mortality, Nuclear Family, Social Inequality
19 Oct 2017
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Family obligation: myth that families felt a strong sense of responsibility towards their blood relatives, fathers created contracts with their eldest son to ensure property was inherited well. Family economy": families are units of production and consumption. There is interdependence between work and residence, household labour needs, subsistence requirements, and family relationships. Family wage economies": family members left the home to work for a wage: as labour requirements changed (i. e. harvest season), household composition changed (i. e. hiring more help, sending children off because there wasn"t enough food to feed everyone) Impermanence and discontinuity: transience in family membership, people couldn"t afford to get married, remained single forever, empty nest homes didn"t exist because the eldest son would always live with parents, until parents died and he inherited everything. In ontario, the labour of wives and daughters was ultimately owned by the father.
