SOCA02H3 Chapter : Families
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It involves reciprocrat rights and obligations b/w spouses and b/w parents and children. Foraging societies y foraging societies are nomadic groups of 100 orfewer ppl . In foraging societies people are highly cooperative men and women care for each others children (women even breastfeed other s children) . Unlike parson that said that socialization is the basic and irreducible function of the nuclear family, it is the band, not the nuclear family that takes care of the children. although some poor women still continued to work, most women are called. Contrary to what they thought, the big picture from the 19th century until the present is the weakening of the nuclear family . In the past, being in love wasn t seen as a prerequisite for marital union (they were arranged by third parties to who has money and how the family could benefit from such a relationship, etc. )
