SOCSCI 2CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ultimate Power, Victorian Era, Stone Age
25 Jan 2019
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Pre-civilization: conway notes - freudian interpretation; his stance is that amongst related cohort members dominant males enjoyed sexual access to all females. Over time the males perceived this indulgent behavior as counterproductive to human social life. Consequently, the men established incest taboos and normative social boundaries this set a definite patriarchy in place and sowed the seeds for today"s human family: the women researchers the pre-civilization period is better defined as a power struggle. They are of the opinion that women"s ability to give birth was seen by men as the women having the ultimate power. Women were the ones who determined if the group continued to exist. Their giving birth enabled the group to go forward for another generation. Men didn"t understand their biological role in precreation at this point in time. So, for the men this ability to give life was a power unmatched by no other.
