SOC 2104 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sex Reassignment Surgery, Homicide, Soltyrei
16 Dec 2016
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Brief history of the canadian family (aboriginal families) Overlapping nuclear family, extended family, and clan structures; practised gender complementarity: gender complementarity: the idea that men and women have distinct talents, characters, roles and spheres of influence that are no ranked hierarchical. Separate but complementary work for men and women, often in same location and time. Distinguished between private and public in the way of separating the world of family and love from the world of employment, politics and competition. For men: work" = paid work and seen as the breadwinner. For women: god given mission of housework". Ideology largely white, middle-class but applied to all. 1900: crisis of the north american family. Move to assimilate canadian aboriginal peoples through indian act and residential schools. Post ww2 entrenched suburban nuclear family. 1963: the feminine mystique (friedan): calling the suburban home a comfortable concentration camp. Since 1980"s there has been growing inequality.
