Family and Community in North America 1600-1900

3 credits · Undergraduate

The family in North American society from, when the family was a model for social relations to the time when it was idealized as a private refuge. Among the topics considered are the role of the family in rural and urban communities; the demographic transition from high fertility and mortality; the reduction of the family's economic and educational autonomy; the role of ideology in shaping sex roles and child rearing; and the relations of family and community according to ethnic group, class and economic setting. RECOMMENDED: A course in the Sociology or Social Anthropology of the family. CROSSLISTED: HIST 3350.03 FORMATS: Lecture | Discussion