SOC 3306 Lecture 2: Week 2

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3306
• Professor: Adolphine Y.Aggor- Boateng

Document Summary

Soc 3306: social structures & relations between the sexes. Week 2: monday, september 11 & wednesday, september 13, 2017. Reading: peach (28-37); hewlett (42-50: techno-economic base: hybrid societies. Poor ecological conditions and pastoral (less settled, small community size, stratified and politically complex: patrilineal (83%), patriarchal and low status of women (than fishing communities) Rare (phoenicians israel, lebanon, gaza, syria, turkey and venetians . Impact: simple lives, low production, population below their technological carrying capacity. Impact: accumulation and retention of surplus, female dominated cultivation, equal or better partnerships control group resources, preference for lower levels of accumulation (women"s influence, matrilineal societies are less stratified and less complex) Invention of the plough: cultivation of large fields, freed people from production. Seeds, fertilizers, new equipment for future production fund. Ceremonial funds savings for feasts, weddings, funerals, religious rites (source of surplus) Other: no difference between the age of attachment of fathers and mothers (8-10 months, other women are involved in childcare.