SOCSCI 2O03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nuclear Family, Male Privilege, Estrous Cycle
16 Mar 2016
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Males were the dominant ones and enjoyed sexual access to all the females. Since the younger males were denied the sexual graiicaion, they rose against the dominant males (their fathers) and slew them. =seeds of the human family were there by sown=. Didn"t oicially write on the emergence of the family. As the human species emerged our very nature was transformed instead of intellectual animals suppressing our besial tendencies in the interests of co-operaion and survival. Dominant family form --- group marriage informal pairing and a simple division of labour based on age and sex. Division of labour was mutual (huning was as important as gathering) Barbarism - complex systems of food producion and storage. Civilizaion - monogamous marriage, laying basis for modern nuclear family. The modern nuclear family emerged at the cradle of women"s oppression with the establishment of a rigid patriarchy and a system of male privilege. Biological determinists state male dominaion and female subordinaion are natural and.
