SOCL 2505 Chapter : Chapter 2 Notes
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What do families do: ensure order, defend against outsiders, provide labor- for food, assist others in group, recruit new members. Family and kinship: most western societies begin with small family units, conjugal family, extended family, family and kinship systems were developed to provide fundamental needs, food production, defense, public family more than private. Historical family activities: production, reproduction, and consumption= familial mode of production, characteristics, self-sufficient, farming family, grow food, raise animals, produce clothing and build dwellings. Informal marriages- not actually getting married by the church diminished. Contemporary family activities: reproduction and consumption = labor market mode of production, characteristics, work for wages, buy goods and services, separated home from workplace. The emerence of the modern american family: 1776- 1900: four new characteristics of the family, marriage increasingly based on affection and mutual respect, women cared for children and maintained the home.
