SOCL 2505 Chapter : Sociology Sept 3
Document Summary
Origins if family and kinship: early existence= hunters-gathers, nomadic: men went hunting came back; woman kept home stead, 10,000 yrs ago, began to settle, led to larger kin groups followed, patrilineages or matrilineages. Go to married man"s side of family; matr. What do families do: ensure order, defend against outsiders, provide labor, assist others in group, recruit new members. Informal marriages: diversity diminished as churches expanded and parent mortality diminished. The emergence of the modern american family: 1776 to 1900: four new characteristics of the family, marriage increasingly based on affection and mutual respect. Individualism: self-satisfaction, personal autonomy: relationship in da family became better not need based but emotional, marriage retained moral basis, moral order, dicorve more difficult, foundation of natural morality. Women"s and men"s spheres: transition from farming to wage labor, rise of commercial capitalism, women left home to tend to children and household, women working outside of hme. The rise of the private family: 1900-present: the early decades.
