Sociology 2235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Great Transition, Family Wage, Family Values
5 Oct 2016
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Native canadians, now there"s very few of them. Society: when looking at private and public family is community, 50 people had to move regularly for food supplies, everyone is equal, there was no formal hierarchy few inequalities. Family: unit of production (food, extensive kinship ties kin controlled behavior, often matrilineal descent, women had more status in society, europeans did not like it. Marriage: equal personal independence was important, not every man had multiple wives but shamans did (polygamous marriages, flexible residential choice (were able to live with family, divorce was easily obtained. Gender roles: sexual freedom, work based on sex and age, reciprocal spheres all activities respected (value is seen in what men and women are doing) Children: loved, raised by the community, no corporal punishments no fear of parents, informally educated learned through playing, watching imitating parents, taught to be adventure & independence, survival = self reliance.
