SOAN 2112 Chapter : Engels

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2112
• Professor: Linda Hunter

Document Summary

There is a definite relationship between the socioeconomic structure fo a society and the form and content of the family, spcificlaly the relation of the sexes. before the 1860s there was no such thing as a history of the family. Lewis henry morgan: humanity has developed in accordance iwth the progress made in the methods of producing the neceassaries of life. central features of each stage of human progress: hunter/gatherer or savage. Lowest stage of savagery, human beings as tree-dwellers, subsisting on vegan diets and developed articulate speech. middle stage of savagery, utilization of fish for food and the use of fire. Humans become independent of particular localities, spread far and wide. upper stage of savagery, invention of the bow and arrow, implying long-accumulated experience and sharpened intelligence. Dug-out canoes, beams and planks in construction of houses: agricultural revolution. Introduction of pottery cites the transition to earliest stage of barbarism.