SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Washing Machine, Total Fertility Rate, Nuclear Family
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Family is valued but seen as threatened. We look back at the family in history. Conditional family life: nuclear family as beneficial. Not idealize past, but seek out the facts . Piece it together from church records, graves, medical reports, etc Family hypothesis: pre- industrial family as extended- underlies the nostalgia, the reality s more complex. Industrialization leads to isolation of the nuclear family. Variable 1: births and deaths maybe 1 in 3 make it past five! Many women die in childbirth ( see implications of this in a minute. ). If you made it past five you"re likely to live on. Small pox is not a pleasant disease to get. If the kid didn"t come from the right direction, they are most likely to die. Variable 3: household size and composition [who these people are] crowding. Most of them turned out to be smaller, the houses were small.
