Sociology 2235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nuclear Family, Cultural Diversity, Pastoralism
1 Sep 2020
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Industrial revolution; did not have to show care for children (i. e. children were working in factories at age 6 and 7: economic factors, the family is an economic unit. Love was not an expectation of marriage up until 100 years ago: marriage served as a function, division of labour, distribution of power and economic resources, meaning attached to concept of family. Industrial societies: marked a drastic change in society. In the 1980s, our societies changed to an information-bsed society. Industrialism: technology that powers complex machinery with advanced sources of energy: huge populations, the development of cities where families move off the farms to the cities. Increased communication: communicating more than ever before, mass production, working in the mill, making boots, wheels for wagons, etc. Family in the 1950s: "haven in a hostile world, traditional nuclear family, privatized and separate, family values stressed.
