Sociology 2235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Parenting, Wage Labour, Nuclear Family
1 Apr 2016
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Note:: make sure that you introduce yourself at the beginning of your presentaion. Presentaion: chapter 6 - mothers on a pedestal. The colonial period 1785: agrarian economy. Families produced most of their own necessiies through agriculture: domesic work. Child rearing was not a separate task (p. 101) Children were taught to do what the women in the family were doing (gardening, churning buter, preparing food, making clothes: family structure. Roles and duies of the family were intertwined, both mothers and fathers had equal responsibility. Nuclear family included extended members eg. unmarried aunts and uncles, servants. Children would apprenice in other homes to learn how to do household jobs. Childhood as we know it today only lasted unil about 10 years of age. Motherhood was not a disinct enity (it didn"t have a separate label) Husbands and wives shared responsibility of children ater the: tradiional inluence child was about 2 years old.
