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Week I:
October 4th and 6th: Traditional Farming, Fishing and Family
Tuesday: Adaptation and varieties of Korean village over the last fifty years. The household as unit of production and consumption. Gendered division of labor. Reciprocity as a norm among males and females (separately)
Thursday: The notion of corporate family, stem family cycle (marriage, childbirth, inheritance, partition, and succession)
Discussion topic (reading summary due)
Contrast families as units of production with modern farm and city families that are not units of production (why can we say this?)
How does the traditional male/female household division of labor relate to formal and informal male and female sources of power and authority. (Here distinguish "authority"--the socially sanctioned right to make decisions--from "power"--the ability to get people to do what you want.)
In what ways does a village based on reciprocity differ from what you are familiar with in US social relations? How does this affect the quality of social relations?
Does reading Chun's view of the importance of inter-familial reciprocity change your understanding of traditional villages ?
Reading:
- Sorensen, Over the Mountains, Preface to Paperback edition (2013), and chapters 1,3 and 4 (Chapter 2 optional).
- Chun Kyungsoo, "The Sharing Process: Secular and Religions," (except) In Reciprocity and Korean Society (Seoul: Seoul National University Press, 1984) pp89-98. (On course website)
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