SOC 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Exogamy, Endogamy

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25 females gone only allows 25 women for the last 45 men most species select few males reproduce in monogamy, all males and all females reproduce all males reproduce every female receives male protection selection is based on social power, not genetic power causes a shift in selection in human society men chose for genes (looks) women chose for power. Economic function worked for the family family is a business until industrial revolution now we leave the home to go to work office or factory family lost function arranged marriages marriage affected the entire family fate of family and fate of individual tied together romance played no part in this role family used to be the mode of production, now they are modes of consumption we need a job to spend money to survive nothing economically significant occurs in the family families are losing their importance disempowered women tremendously after ir.