SOCI 200 Lecture 3: SOCI200L3
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How do social class and globalizaion impact the diverse forms of families. Families in anthropological, cross cultural and global perspecive. Wednesday: social class = explains social inequality in family life, discussion item by group 3, fast-forward family = construcion of middle-class families (in groups) Why snaf is useful to think about intact vs defecive families. What is the problem in the irst example (single parent at school) What is the problem in the second example (afro-american families) Why the home is the central protagonist deining middle-class families. Why child centric parening is a moral imperaive. Important to look backwards in ime and outwards across culture. Anthropological perspecive: complementary to sociology, strong interests in families in other cultural contexts (within and outside canada) Late 1500"s/early 1600s jacques carier arrived from france: french setlers (acadians) Trading posts and trade with first naions families: alcohol, guns, knives, axes(and diseases, violence, and change in diet and lifestyle)
