HDFS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Individualism
14 Dec 2018
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Changes in us family related to technological innovations. Farming becomes large scale and commercial; factories develop. Familial mode of production replaced by labor market mode of production. Opportunity to earn money undermined father"s authority in family. Economic independence of adult children facilitated growth of individualism. Labor for wages vs home and kids. Sharp split between home life and work life led to concept of separate spheres . Place where wives could renew their husbands" spirituality and character. Right after civil war women considered innately purer, more virtuous than men, benefit to society and men. Virtuous woman was needed at home to take care of children. Middle-class women only worked if they had to (husband could not provide for them) shameful. Emergence of the modern american family: 1900. Wife (morally superior) cared for home and children. Attention and energy of husband and wife increasingly centered on each other and on children.
