SOCIOL 2U06 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Compulsory Education, Mass Production, Premarital Sex
9 Jan 2016
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Topic 6 canadian families in the past. Chapter three: canadian families in the past the decline of the patriarchal family. In the early years of trading and settlement, the sex ratio among the european population was skewed, with a surplus of men. Many of these men viewed indigenous women as exotic but valuable partners, relying on their skills in procuring food, processing furs, making clothing, etc. Children from french traders and indigenous women were called. Marriage was seen as essential for the economic survival of both. Metis men and women: but also seen as a way of controlling the unruly behaviour of. Gendered and class-based ideas about families were transplanted single men or maintaining social control from britain and other european countries. When europeans settlers first arrived in canada, they encountered many tribes with different family systems and ways of life (now ontario) Lived in extended families in villages organized by clan membership. Descent was traced through the female line.
