SOC275H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Acculturation
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History of the canadian (and north american) family: first nations and inuit people lived in family structures based on diverse traditions and practices, nuclear families, but overlapping with nuclear and extended family structures were clan structures that also provided a concept of family ties", aboriginal families shared an emphasis on extended family and clan in their definition of kinship, aboriginal groups were relatively egalitarian or, more accurately, practiced gender complementarity: a division of labour assigned different tasks to men and women, but male privilege either did not exist or was limited by other forms of customary power, matrilocal: determining residence by female kinship rather than by male, new france"s missionaries attempted to inculcate christian family life, including male domination and female obedience, in first nations people, men defined manhood through their status as landowners, heads of household, and participants in community and political life.
