PPS for text

1. Designed by Karen Saucier Lundy to supplement the textbook
Families in Context: Sociological Perspectives, by Gene H.
Starbuck and Karen Saucier Lundy. For publication information
about the text:
http://www.paradigmpublishers.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?pro
ductID=409768

3.  Overview of Preindustrial Societies
Life as a hunter-gatherer
Transition to agrarian societies

4.  Pre-Industrial Institutions
 Political institutions
 Social stratification system
 Religion
 Education and socialization
 Sexuality
▪ Reproduction
▪ Nonreproductive sexual functions

5.  Kinship Systems and Families
▪Oglala example
▪Characteristics of agrarian families
 Family formation
▪Number of partners
▪Mate selection

6.  The European Family
 The Roman family
 Christian influence
▪ Marriage as sacrament
▪ Monogamous marriage only
▪ No divorce
▪ Sex limiting
▪ Oppose contraception, abortion and infanticide
 Changes in inheritance
 Households
 Gender
 Children

7.  The North American Family
Puritan New England families
African American slave families
SouthernWhite families

8. TEST
YOURSELF!

9.  In hunting-gathering societies, it is generally
true that
 A. People had to spend nearly all their waking
hours finding food.
 B. Men did the hunting and women did the
gathering.
 C. Most of the adults became specialists in one
task or another.
 D. All of the above.

10.  "The hierarchical ranking of individuals on the
basis of wealth, power, or prestige" is called
 A. Life chances.
 B. Institutional specialization.
 C. Social stratification.
 D. Berdache.
 E. Chivalry.