SOC244H5 Lecture Notes - Gender Role, Proletariat, Dowry
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Blessed by god and not the church. Feudalism: regit society, the space youre born into is the one you live and same for your kids. 18th century: farmers in europe weren"t allowed to leave their land: literate and uneducated farmers therefore stuck in their life rank. They could only reach as far as they could see. The household was a unit of production and consumption: all the contribution of everyone in the family was highly valued because it was visible. Because of communism family were interconnected, in here the families lost that. Peasant marriages tend to be arranged; economic arrangement: dowry husband promises something for an exchange of the women. Michele barrette: because of everyones need in the house hold was more egalitarian. Montreal: wage labour of young children was dependant. When children don"t work, the family was very poor.