Parsons said that these roles made things ‘nice and functional’. He also said that men and women were biologically suited to these roles so it was only natural for men to be the breadwinners and women are the stay at home wives. This is a very traditional view. There are many factors affecting power relationships and the division of labour between couples. Firstly, whether a family live in a symmetrical family or not will have an effect on the divisions of labour.
(Nowak and Laird, 2010, Sections 4.2) They prepare their land and grow the food for their people, what is known as their kinship. The Iroquois society’s kinship consists of parents and siblings that are too closely related to marry, in-laws and potential spouses. They marry their cross cousins to keep the wealth and also to ensure the alliances that are built are kept. The kinship would live in what was called a “longhouse”. (Nowak and Laird, 2010, Sections 4.5) What I thought to be interesting is that the Iroquois society is able to easily end a marriage.
Corn, beans, and squash, which they called "deohako" was considered their life support. Woman tended to the fields with the clan mother supervising. The men's responsibility was to cultivate or prepare the fields and also build villages. Men would leave the village to hunt in the fall and return in the winter. They lived in longhouses, which were long structures where nuclear families lived.
Functionalist Murdock suggested as children we are socialised into societies shared norms and values and he believed that males provide the economic roles and females provided the expressive role. Therefore it is natural for women to play the expressive role in the household looking after the family’s emotional needs. However, radical feminist Ann Oakley argues that the role of the housewife is a social construction and isn’t linked to the female role. The housewife role makes sure that women stay inferior to men making it difficult for them have careers. Women carry out the triple burden in the household; the domestic labour, emotional labour, and paid labour.
The story focuses on ideals of Cherokee society such as nature, respect for the land, spirit, love and mountain life. “ “ The story also prominently displays a strong mentoring relationship between Little Tree and his Granpa. His Granpa uses everyday lessons and hardships to teach Little Tree about independence and being a proper man. ” ” You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been. This coming of age story has a lot of sadness juxtaposed by excitement and enthusiasm about what the future brings.
However, in U.S. with Indian culture, husband and wives both work together in but only wives work the household chores such as cleaning and cooking. Even though wives do not work outside in our country, they work in the U.S., which is acceptable since wives generally take up work outside. This exists because of ethnocentrism that husbands in India do not help with household chores. If the Indian people believed in culture relativism than both spouses can make their life and environment better. This type of ethnocentrism does not set a good example for the new
Doctors, Dentists, Farmers etc. While Mechanical solidarity is more of a shared society, where the individuals of that community have an equal share in responsibility and importance, they work together. While studying “The Harmless People,” a book written by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, we examine her experiences with the Bushmen: and how their society reflects organic or mechanical solidarity. Hunting is the framework of life for the Bushmen, which has a large connection to family relations, influences marriage, establishes social standings among the community, and directs rituals and taboos in a manner that would be more closely considered mechanical solidarity than organic. Family would have to be the basic structure for relationships of nearly everyone throughout the world, not just the Bushmen.
Women worked similar jobs as the males within the plantations. Males were not the breadwinners of the families; therefore, the females and males both together had to provide food and shelter for their families. Gender roles were somewhat disregarded until the pregnancy of the woman came into the picture. “Gender norms in the quarters, therefore, tended to recognize black men and women as equal partners with similar abilities”. White plantation owners placed this equality amongst females and males because it allowed for a faster and greater production rate on the plantation.
Ernestine Friedl makes the argument that women hold positions which directly correlate to their level of control and ownership of primary subsistence and their public displays of such. Despite there being no universally established hierarchy of leadership within the Kung! society, the individual bands do have their own core leadership to varying degrees. In the bands Nisa describes, Kung! women, arguably, hold significant influence within their respective bands.
I also hink it’s our duty to be the nurturer in the house hold and the husband to be the “bread-winner.” Women wouldnt feel the need to go to work if the men didn’t put us down, or doubt our abilites. I think that women have the right to work just as much as men. I also disagree because we should give jobs to men because women have a job nuturing the family and taking care of the