SOCC09H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Marriage Bar, Virilization, Social Economy
27 Jan 2017
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Week 3: lecture #2: wednesday january 17th 2017. The history of gender in relationship to the labour market. Horizontal: everyone is equal, no power, prestige, etc. over anyone else. Hierarchical: organized in relationship to wealth. Low amount of wealth, medium amount of wealth, great. Vertical amount of wealth: ranked in a variety of different ways. Income, power, status, prestige, etc: capitalist societies are an example of this. Methodological issues in examining gender in a historical context. The history of those who would be considered were typically powerful men, european cultures, etc. meaning a lot of people"s history wasn"t documented (slaves, undocumented workers, etc. ) How was inheritance organized?) (benoit, cecilia m. 2000. Toronto: prentice hall. : the pre-capitalist period, pre-contact, contact. The pre-contact period: hunter-gatherers, small scale agriculturalists, fishers. Over time they moved from more nomadic to less nomadic. Areas near where ontario and quebec are now. Wasn"t so much nomadic, but more permanent.
