Ryan Schram's Anthrocyclopaedia

Anthropology presentations and learning resources

User Tools

Site Tools


1002:2022:6.1

Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

Link to this comparison view

Both sides previous revisionPrevious revision
Last revisionBoth sides next revision
1002:2022:6.1 [2022/08/31 17:35] – [Family and household] Ryan Schram (admin)1002:2022:6.1 [2022/08/31 17:35] – [Family and household] Ryan Schram (admin)
Line 28: Line 28:
 Imagine conducting a population survey or census in this community. Can you ask about parents and children? Does that matter to understanding people’s economic status, health, or residence? Imagine conducting a population survey or census in this community. Can you ask about parents and children? Does that matter to understanding people’s economic status, health, or residence?
  
-  * For the most part, demographers and other survey research already learned about the diversity of family from anthropology and don’t ask questions with ethnocentric assumptions.+  * For the most part, demographers and other survey researchers have already learned about the diversity of family from anthropology and don’t ask questions with ethnocentric assumptions.
   * They ask instead about the members of a household, a group of people living together, irrespective of how they are related.   * They ask instead about the members of a household, a group of people living together, irrespective of how they are related.
   * But even the idea of “living together” rests on some assumptions about daily routines, economic activity, and the overall social and economic structure of society. You wouldn’t ask people in Pulau Langkawi or Maimafu how long their commute to work is, would you?   * But even the idea of “living together” rests on some assumptions about daily routines, economic activity, and the overall social and economic structure of society. You wouldn’t ask people in Pulau Langkawi or Maimafu how long their commute to work is, would you?
1002/2022/6.1.txt · Last modified: 2022/09/01 16:26 by Ryan Schram (admin)