First half of course Flashcards
Analyzing the familiar: Anthropologists would state that family should be defined by the social structure or by biology
social structure
Analyzing the familiar: The formal definition of family is important because it informs (3)
legislation, social policies, practices that govern our lives.
Analyzing the familiar: The formal definition of family is said to inform legislation, policy, and practice. What are four primary ways that it does this?
Determines who you can marry, who has access to institutional documents (prison, hospital, school), who receives inheritance, and who you can help immigrate.
Analyzing the familiar: How do the authors of the text define family?
the social relationships that people create to care for children and other dependents on a daily basis, and to also ensure the needs of the adults are met.
Analyzing the familiar: What is social reproduction
the work of caring for children and meeting adult needs
Analyzing the familiar: Who started structural functionalism
Talcott Parsons
Analyzing the familiar: The ideas of instrumental versus expressive roles being tuned for men versus woman was first proposed by which sociological theory
Structural functionalism
Analyzing the familiar: Which two scholars published works in support of structural functionalism as a plea to reinforce the heterosexual nuclear family
Popenoe and Becker
Analyzing the familiar: There is no one feminist theory. What would most feminists agree on in terms of the function and structure of family/family roles (3)
gender inequality is bad and we need to work to reduce it, there is no neutral or biologically determined family, family forms built on gendered divisions of labour produce gender inequality.
Analyzing the familiar: What is the theoretical perspective of political economy
in every society there is a relationship between how people produce their livelihood (food, shelter) and the way the human population is produced daily and across generations
Analyzing the familiar: What is an example of political economy
in hunter gatherer societies people would have more children and gender relations were more equal because that was effective for the production of livelihood versus in foraging societies amount of children varied based on economic necessity and gender relations were equal/unequal on the basis of men’s land ownership
Analyzing the familiar: What is the task of post structuralism
to reveal the ways in which particular truths are, produced, given legitimacy, and achieve power over the way we live
Family economy: what dominated life in pre-industrial England and France households
the work of producing subsistence
Family economy: what defines a family economy
an interdependence of work and residence, of household labour needs, subsistence requirements, and family relationships
Family economy: In RURAL pre-industrial england and France which line of work employed most people/people were employed with
agriculture.
Family economy: What saying succinctly puts what a family was defined as in rural pre-industrial england and france
a family is the groups of persons locked up for the night behind one lock.
Family economy: In rural pre-industrial england and France, most (60%) individuals aged 15-24 were…
servants
Family economy: Agricultural capitalism led to…
the enclosure of large areas of land and the gradual violent resistance and dispossession of small farms.
Family economy: At what point in time did a majority of land in rural pre-industrial england and France fall in the hands of a select few, now upper class people
1750.
Family economy: Difference between agricultural workers and those in the cottage industry
agricultural workers left their home. Cottage industry workers worked in a home.
Family economy: What were the largest urban manufacturing sectors in pre-industrial england and france
production of food and clothing and the construction of housing
Family economy: Cities in pre-industrial england and France differed by
business specializaton
Family economy: businesses in urban pre-industrial england and France were organized by
guilds
Family economy: What is the difference between wage labourers and servants
wage labourers go to their own houses at the end of the work day to contribute to the overall economic success of their own household.