HDFS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nuclear Family
30 Mar 2020
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Earliest time characterized by economic, racial, ethnic, religious, familial diversity. Poorer people sent their children to wealthier households to work as servants or to learn a trade. Some people also came to new world as indentured servants; free passage for work. Many households had people who were not kin - servants, apprentices. Men were expected to be hardworking, ambitious, and responsible for the family"s economic survival. Women were subordinate to men in general and a woman"s social status and power in the community usually came from her husband or father. European colonists: the primacy of the public family. Households were closely linked to one another and very dependent on each other for cooperation and economic exchanges. In new england there were three social classes. In the south people settled in isolated plantations and on farms. Every household under authority of male property owner. Hierarchical society with poorer having to obey richer.
