SOC214H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Human Capital, Sexual Revolution, Alimony
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Need for cooperation and sharing among a number of adults more than two. Women usually gatherer and man hunter- need more than two. Would not be able to survive without more than 2 because living of resources foraged. Survival strategy via cooperation, share game : explain why, instead of saving, marrying and forming nuclear families, people in poor. African-american communities in the us in the 70s formed personal networks of kin who exchanged scarce goods and service on an ongoing basis. start with poverty, people did not have enough to survive. People cannot survive if they just take what they get which inhibited marriage instead of marrying, there is a pattern of forming networks of people who continually exchange goods and services. Giving with intent of getting back = survival strategy = give and take. Stack says this is a creative adaptation of poverty .
