There you may click on compose to add a new message, or click on any message to read it. Options to reply to messages and add your 2 cents are at the top of the message. To review comments previously sent to the listserv up to Sept. 1, go to the discussion archive page . This Unit of the Sociology of the family course focuses on historical and cultural approaches to learning about the family. Some sort of family structure exists in all societies.
Anthropologists study how culture interacts with family structures and processes.
Web CT Early anthropologists were criticized for taking their cultural filters with them into the field. He also found proof that men are heads of families and that women's place is in the home. The following site posts the Introduction to Engel's Origin of the Family, State, and Private Property which confronts the lack of objectivity in early studies and posits a theory of how families change in reaction to technology, class, and economic changes. For instance, economists estimate that a dual-career family in the 90's takes home about the same in real dollars or buying power as a male factory worker in 1966. From the chapters in STC, tell us something your learned.