Class 6 Chapter Two

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Class 6(Chapter Two)

• The History of the Family

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The Study of the Family

• Began in 1960
• Aries
• History of childhood
• Demos

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Origins of Family and Kinship

• Evolutionary theory - infants need care
• Hunter-gatherers
• Settled agriculture
• Lineages
• Patrilineage
• Matrilineage

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Kinship Groups

• Ensure order
• Defend against outsiders
• Provide labor
• Assist other group members
• Recruit new members from outside
• Through marriage

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Kinship Groups

• Smaller family units
• Mother and children always
• Husband/father, usually
• Other household members, sometimes

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Families in Western Culture

• Smaller kinship groups
• Conjugal family husband, wife, and children
• Extended family other relatives in household

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Types of Families

• Stem family one child remains to carry on
  family line
• Polygyny One man, more than one wife
• Polyandry One woman, more than one husband

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Historical Modes of Production

• Production Familial
• Reproduction Mode of
• Consumption Production
• Characteristics
• self-sufficient, farming family
• grow food, raise animals, produce clothing, and
  build dwellings

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Recent Modes of Production

• Reproduction Labor Market Mode of
  
• Production Production
• Characteristics
• Work for wages
• Buy goods and services
• Separated home from workplace
• Parental authority eroded--Land no longer used as
  a bargaining chip

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