The History Of Family, Pre Modern Family

Posted on May 10, 2008
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In feudal society, agrarian-based, family structure (also from an institutional point of view) is usually that parental extended, with indivisible property and collective property, in which the authority is a patriarchal.
. The woman is subjected to a relationship of subordination full, which accentuates the fact with capitalism, and that we find.
We note, however, that in pre modern society (and this is very different from bourgeois society), the father-husband can not dispose at will of the assets of the family, and division of work, assigning the woman also important tasks in domestic production, allows it to maintain a certain amount of power (especially in rural communities).

The pre modern family, both as a model prevailing (in sociology, the model most widespread and culturally significant in a population) and as the dominant model (model in this class and / or social strata dominant in a given society). is closely linked, so vital to the social fabric of kinship, of the village, the local community, and the roles of father and husband-wife-mother are both restrictive constraints on individuality, but also guarantees social solidarity.

The type prevailing pre modern family is regrouping itself three major social functions: first, that of socialization and cultural integration of all members of kinship to a common system of laws to be followed (in which occupies a prominent religion); there is the economic function (and consumption) connected from closure to the outside and very few economic exchanges and finally the policy, which covers both aspects of mutual assistance, which government and control of the property.

Of course there are other types of family, the aristocratic-genteel, for example, that has delegated the work into the lower social scale, and yet the family of the proletariat agriculture, which is usually nuclear, lives on the margins of society and is excluded from economic output. But the prevailing model of family from a cultural and structural is patriarchal incorporating itself, as was just said, the main mechanisms of subsistence and reproduction of society as an organic whole.

This type of social organization is still present in some areas of the south, where the family is still a social group “exclusive”, this not only for the functions of socialization, but also with regard to economic and political functions performed in this company, based family-customer. The Model-customer is that specific behavioral model that goes down especially on family relationships, and that uses the bonds of kinship to obtain favors.

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