SOCIOL 2HH3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Eleanor Leacock, Patrilineality, Nuclear Family
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Functionalists the different roles men + women play contribute to different parts of society. The origins of the family, private property and the state (engels, 1942: role of inheritance important, emergence of the nuclear family and private property. Once people settled down, they accumulated things, then those things were inherited. Male offsprings inherited it as females tended to marry-off, entering their husbands family unit: monogamous marriage. Based on rise of private property and gave strength to men having more power (because of inheritance: sexual control of women by men, work of eleanor leacock reference. Description of foraging societies and the changing that occurred with mascapy, newfoundland foraging society. Women had over and independence, both sexed involved in taking care of children and group, women could have multiple partners, love for all children in community, not just their biological ones. Descent theorists (tiger and fox: fixed nature of mother-child bond.
