SA 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Audrey Richards, Margaret Mead, Nuclear Family
21 Dec 2020
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Tv show an american family recorded 7 months of the typical nuclear family of husband, wife, 5 children, 2 dogs. Margaret mead reviewed the show in a 3 page article. May be as important for our time as were the invention of drama and the novel for earlier generations: a new way to help people understand themselves (mead, 1973) By title of the series, producers making an unstated claim that the norm of the dominant social group was the idea for all americans of every race, ethnicity, and social class. Kinship = socially recognized ties among people, most commonly derived from mating, birth, and nurturance (stern, 2016 p. 290) Until 1970s, study of kinship central to anth bc it represented the fundamental form of social organization to anths. Most anths assumed that kinship most imp and only form of social organization in primitive societies. Radcliffe-brown and audrey richards used structural functionalism to analyze the significance of the family.
