FMSC 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: World-Systems Theory, Acculturation, Social Class
10 Oct 2018
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Day seven: history of the family - impact of industrialization & colonialism. Most of history is written about people with power, however social history (and qualitative research) tells the story of common people with common lives. Industrialization: high income countries industrialized and dominated by the end of the. Prior to this families were the primary caregivers, but now the world was moving towards institutions (schools, welfare, agriculture) Colonialism: mercantilism, local elite/middle class copied colonizers. Latin america, asia, and africa were sources of raw goods (export), as well as a market for manufactured goods (import) These continents were viewed as charity by colonizers. 1800 - 1870: industrialization, higher productivity of factories singled out farmers, 1880s: spread to asia, africa, latin america, indigenous defeated. 1871 - 1914: age of progress , decrease in death, increase in food and transport, however there was still poor health and poor living conditions. Acculturation: process of adopting practices, traditions, identity of a new community post migration.
