1.They were not allowed to vote and lost most control of their property (if they had any to begin with) in marriage. They could not divorce, and even single women could not make contracts, sue anyone, or be sued, at least until the late 18th century.
2 During most of American history, women’s lives in most states were circumscribed by common law brought to North America by English colonists
3 hey were not aloud to vote and lost most control of their property
4 Referent power is about gaining others’ followership because they respect you, they want your approval, and they want to be like you
There is no option for your question but by the definiiton of Cult of domesticity is possible to understand the concept.
Between 1820 and the Civil War, the growth of new industries,
businesses and professions helped to create in America a new middle class. (The Middle class consisted of families whose husbands worked as lawyers, office workers, factory managers, merchants, teachers, physicians, and others.) At that moment it was important for those groups developed the idea of womanhood. It means to create standards for women who belong to that group. A type of rules. Those rules had essentially four parts‐‐four characteristics any good and proper young woman should cultivate: piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness. It´s important to remember that rules were created to white women. At that time slavery still happening in the United States.
The book of Charles Dana Gibson, No Time for Politics, 1910 says:
"The Cult of Domesticity developed as family lost its function as
economic unit. Many of links between family and community closed off as work left home. Emergence of market economy and the devaluation of womenʹs work. Increasingly, then, home became a self‐contained unit. Privacy was a crucial issue for nineteenth‐century families, and can see this concern in the spatial development of suburbs in urban areas as families sought single family dwellings were they could be even more isolated from others. Women remained in the home, as a kind of cultural hostage".
Operant conditioning (sometimes referred to as instrumental conditioning) is a method of learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior. Through operant conditioning, an association is made between a behavior and a consequence for that behavior.
→ she didn't want to go to school, made up an excuse and even got a prize for it (breakfast)
Primary reinforcement is a reinforcement that does not depend on previous learning (conditioning). They are generally used to meet basic needs, such as water and food. Its relationship was established based on phylogenesis.
→ she was afraid to go to school and made up an excuse
Reinforcement, or reinforcing stimulus, for behaviorism is the consequence of behavior that makes it more likely. The reinforcement can be positive (through the addition of a stimulus) or negative (through the removal of a stimulus).
