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.
The government created camps in attempt to provide this basic support. The camps nonetheless did provide some senses of security, and the people were receiving better treatments. However, the despite the government’s effort to protect them, the farmers were still constantly in jeopardy due to the inability of finding rightful jobs to feed the family, and also being threatened by wealthy landowners trying to sabotage their unity, pushing them to their limit. In this battle between the rich and the poor, the government did not help the poor very much, because the government was passive and was incapable of solving the ultimate problem,
Native Americans were mainly sedentary and did not relocate often, they also hunted rather than domesticated. They had to hunt for their meat, so they were often exposed to the dangers and difficulties of hunting. This generated a certain amount of respect for wildlife and nature. Native Americans also had to cultivate land by hand due to the lack of large livestock. Since this process was time consuming, there was not much specialization of labor.
People with low income also tend to have lesser education because they have fewer opportunities and many students drop out of school because they need to go into the workforce to support their family. I personally have family that live in Texas and live in poverty. Most of them have never graduated from high school and each time an election is held they never go out and vote. They don’t understand why they need to vote so they just don’t bother. Social class
d. In the future, there will be a major reorganization of kinship and the family, which will restore power to the elderly. 23. Chiefdoms and agricultural states are classified as __________ because they provide little opportunity for social mobility. Industrial states, on the other hand, are considered ___________ because social status can be achieved through individual
Midterm Exam 1. The civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt differ in profound ways. What were these differences and what were the major causes for this to be so? There are many things that differ ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. Some of these differences are their religion, agriculture, writing skills, and inventions as well as their ways of life.
Many individuals see the "Stone Age" as one big diverse period in history, but in fact the Stone Age is made up of two distinct sub-periods called the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) and the Neolithic (New Stone Age). During the Paleolithic Era, the men and women hunted and gathered their food, but with the discovery of agriculture and domestication of animals, a new way of living was introduced and changed society forever. This introduced the Neolithic Age, and although many ways of living changed, some were still preserved. Religion for instance was a similarity that was carried into the Neolithic society; both eras did burials which indicated a belief in afterlife. Along with that, some aspects of the social organization were the same.
Such provisions allowed Cherokee Indians to adapt to an unknown world, where their gender roles and culture, heritage, and concepts changed tremendously. The Cherokee tribes were not easily convinced about changing their ways of living; however they adapted to this new world in order to be seen as an equal to the European nation. In many ways the Cherokees changed their culture from what was once a matrilineal society, where the women were the base of the household, caring for the children, farming, cooking and providing the essentials for survival. Men on the other hand were the primary hunters, leaving for long periods of time allowing women to gain more of a control over homely duties and making decisions for the family. Being that matrilineality placed women at a higher position than men,
(Brendt, 1985) Sometimes they are about the exploits of women alone, or sometimes they exploits with men and even in some cases in opposition to men. Whatever the stories may be they are of vital significance with regards to passing down knowledge and culture. (Brendt, 1985) A sharp and significant aspect of Aboriginal women in the eighteenth and nineteenth century was that they could be and almost always were completely independent. That is to say that they were self sufficient in the role for feeding themselves and their children and did not have to rely soley on a man to provide for them. This is in sharp contrast to European women of the time that almost exclusively needed to rely on their husbands to provide for them.
The book indicates that a single-parent “has been demonstrated not to affect children’s cognitive and emotional functioning (Foster & Kalil, 2007). However, I believe that conflicts found in a single-parent household may not be linked to the parent who has raised their children, but they can be associated with other things related to single parenting. Normally when there is only one parent, the family is often less financially stable which is the main reason for many family problems. Also, lower education levels and lower economic achievements have been associated with effects of coming from a low income family. It is also true that these children are less supervised because they don’t receive the time and communication from their parents.