family test review

FAMILIES IN A CANADIAN SOCIETY OAC
MID-TERM EXAM REVIEW SHEET

THE CHANGE IN THE FAMILY THROUGHOUT HISTORY

There were four different periods through which the family over went changes. These periods were the Pre Industrial Period, the Industrial Revolution, the Great Depression, and the Sexual Revolution.

1) The Pre Industrial Family:

• pre 19th century
• family economies, (every member contributed to economy of family)
• economy based on agriculture, and was rural based
• family much larger, b/c more children had, the more likely the family was going to survive
• also, more children, meant that they could help on farm, and with elderly parents (support)
• children considered overall producers to economy
• work gender defined and the family consisted of many generations
• workplace and home one and the same

2) The Industrial Family:

• 19th century
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