HDFS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Gender Inequality, Exponential Growth, Interlocking
16 Sep 2016
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Most important event in history of humanity since domestication of animals, plants, and fire. Transformations in average level of education: previously: 8th grade. By mid-19th century, strong interest in social change and family issues. Individual obligations to family questioned: darwin evolutionary theory: origin of families will tell us where families are going. Natural selection led to best forms of families over time. Social darwinism dominated study of family for almost 50 years from 1860 onwards. Provided scientific legitimization for western colonization and exploitation of. Affected treatment of poorer classes in americn and west. Darwin introduced idea of struggle necessary to existence and survival. Marx and engels: conflict is inherent to human relations. Necessary for and the root of change: value of dialectic-dynamism (stages of thesis, antithesis, class as central-materialist view of mankind, technology produces 2 classes: owners and workers. Haves and have-nots: made gender central, marxists: k. marx and f. engels. Main contribution: family as an economic unit.
