household

patriarchical desire

undynamic concept of culture

nationality

American

innovator in the field of

capitalism

gender and sexuality studies

kinship

is not characterized by a unified strategy. Members of a household do not 'share a collective motive and will'.

must be analyzed in terms of cultural meanings because there is 'no such thing as a unified household strategy,' members of a household do not 'share a collective motive and will' (1984:331)

is the wish to ensure transmission to sons.

is the inclination to discover sameness in seeming similarities over time.

They rely on an 'undynamic concept of culture . . . inclined to discover sameness in seeming similarities over time' (Yanagisako, in press: 4-5). In doing so, they fail to examine the dynamic creation and re-creation of such social patterns and cultural beliefs that occur during historical processes of social and cultural change. They confuse tradition as historical continuity with traditionalism-the manipulation, invention, and recombination of cultural patterns, symbols, and motifs to legitimate contemporary social realities. (in Bestor, Theodore C. 1985. Tradition and Japanese social organization: Institutional development in a Tokyo neighborhood. Ethnology 24(2): 121-135.)

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