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    Society: The Basics
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    1. MarissaAnderson1 27 Apr 2026
      Specialization. Students in middle school and high school learn Spanish from one teacher, receive guidance from another, and are coached in sports by still others. Students shuffle between fifty-minute periods throughout the school day. As a result, no school official comes to know the child well.

      This passage stood out to me because I went to a relatively big high school and sometimes I felt pretty distant from my teachers. This shows how schools treat students like parts on something like an assembly line rather than actual people with specific needs that are different from one another. Going in between 50 min periods make it very hard for any teacher to really get to know a student. This makes me thing that we are losing our emotional support and personal connection with students by prioritizing that specialized knowledge.

    2. MarissaAnderson1 27 Apr 2026
      Socialization. Technologically simple societies look to families to teach skills and values and thus to transmit a way of life from one generation to the next. As societies gain more complex technology, they turn to trained teachers to pass on the more specialized knowledge that adults will need to take their place in the workforce.

      Our learning changes as society gets more advanced. In simple cultures, families teach everything, but in places like the United States, we mostly rely on special teachers to prepare us for work life. Relating this back to myself, it makes me realize that while my family has taught me basic values, I've had to learn specific skills by going to college (for my career).

    3. MarissaAnderson1 24 Apr 2026
      Patriarchy. Feminists link the family to patriarchy. To be sure they were actually the father of their children and, therefore could be sure of their heirs, men began to control the sexuality of women. Families therefore transform women into the sexual and economic property of men. A century ago in the United States, most wives’ earnings belonged to their husbands. Today, women still bear most of the responsibility for child rearing and housework.

      This section on patriarchy stood out to be me cause it explains how the family structure was historically used by men to control women as economic and sexual property. It’s crazy to me that only a century ago, a wife’s earnings belonged to her husband and not to her. Even today, women still handle the majority of housework and childcare. This reminds me of the social dynamics I've seen in my favorite shows.

    4. MarissaAnderson1 24 Apr 2026
      Patriarchy. Feminists link the family to patriarchy. To be sure they were actually the father of their children and, therefore could be sure of their heirs, men began to control the sexuality of women. Families therefore transform women into the sexual and economic property of men. A century ago in the United States, most wives’ earnings belonged to their husbands. Today, women still bear most of the responsibility for child rearing and housework

      This section on patriarchy stood out to me because it explains how the family structure was historically used by men to control women’s as economic as sexual; proper. It’s crazy to think that only a century ago, a wife’s paycheck belonged to her husband. Even today, women still handle the majority of housework and childcare. This reminds me of some of my favorite shows that I like to watch at home.

    5. MarissaAnderson1 24 Apr 2026
      Regulation of sexual activity. Every culture regulates sexual activity in the interest of maintaining kinship organization and property rights. As discussed in Chapter 7 (“Sexuality and Society”), the incest taboo is a norm forbidding sexual relations or marriage between certain relatives. Although the incest taboo exists in every society, exactly which relatives cannot marry varies from one culture to another. The matrilineal Navajo, for example, forbid marrying any relative of one’s mother. Our bilateral society applies the incest taboo to both sides of the family but limits it to close relatives, including siblings, parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles. But even brother–sister (but not parent–child) marriages were accepted among the ancient Egyptian, Incan, and Hawaiian nobility (Murdock [1949] 1965).

      I think that this passage is interesting. The paragraph explains that societies make these rules mostly to keep kinship and property right organized, which is a perspective that I did not think about beforehand. These rules change depending on the culture you associate with. For example, the Navajo strictly say no to marrying any of your mother’s family. On the other hand ancient Hawaiians actually wanted brother and sister marriages (for the royalty). Coming from a anatomy nerd, I’m used to thinking that nerves, cells, and bones are what make up a person, but this shows that social rules are what actually define who our relationships are with. Incest taboo isn’t just about genetics, it’s about using it as a social tool for protection.

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