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.
Family economy: Was meeting economic needs easily maintained in a family wage economy in urban pre-industrial England and france
no, all combined wages were barely enough.
Family economy: Were rural or urban family households more sufficient
rural
Family economy: Did marriage occur late or early in pre-industrial england and France and what are the reasons for this
late (24/25 women and 27 men) women needed to have a dowry, apprentices needed to be done their training,
Family economy: Was the birth rate high or low in pre industrial england and france
low
Family economy: How did the domestic industry which provided cash wages and jobs and occurred in 17th century england, influence marriage trends
lt lowered the age of marriage
Family economy: What economic event lowered the age of marriage in pre-industrial england- similarly to the domestic industry in the 17th century
the growth of commercial agriculture and thus the demand for agricultural labourers.
Family economy: Was never getting married more common in rural or urban areas in pre-industrial England and france
urban
Family economy: One reason time between births was so short in pre-industrial england and france
the use of wet nurses
Family economy: What were mortality rates like in pre-industrial england and france
very high
Family economy: were death rates higher in urban or rural areas in pre-industrial england and france
urban
Family economy: What was the average life expectancy (infant mortality included) in pre industrial england and france
30
Family economy: What was the average life expectancy (infant mortality not included) in pre industrial england and france
50-60
Family economy: was remarriage after being widowed common and for which gender
yes and for men
Family economy: What could be an alternative to a dowry for some women
apprentice skills she grew up learning from her father
Family economy: did young women and men ever return home after leaving to be servants in pre-industrial england and France. And were boys or girls more likely to do this
yes they could return home or simply stay in contact. This was more common among girls.
Family economy: was premarital sex common? were bastards common? what happened to women who had bastard children
yes in relationships that were about to legitimized, no there were not a lot of bastard children and women who had bastard children often had their family of origin cut ties with them.
Family economy: when could a women join a guild
when her husband died and as long as she did not remarry
Family economy: the loss of one partner usually led to…
the destruction of that family economy
Family economy: How was society in pre-industrial england and France patriarchal (3)
adultery was legal for men but not for women, men could punish their wives, inheritance went to men,
Family economy: Gender relations in pre-industrial england and France were primarily….
equal
Family economy: Was motherhood a special and distinct period in pre-industrial england and france
no
Family ties: Servantry in Southern Europe was more common in rural or urban areas
urban
Family ties: Were preindustrial youth more likely to be a servant in northern/Western Europe or southern Mediterranean europe
northern/western.
Family ties: Economic hardship experienced by young adults in pre-industrial Northern and western Europe fell onto the hands of:
the struggling young adults
Family ties: hardship experienced by young adults in pre-industrial Southern Europe fell onto the hands of
the entire family group
Family ties: Traditionally, in Mediterranean societies aid given to vulnerable members of socieity came from:
family or individual charity
Family ties: Traditionally in Northern Europe aid to vulnerable members of society came from:
public and private institutions
Family ties: Elderly care is a good example of
how families in northern and Southern Europe differed in the past- with southern families taking care of their elderly and northern families where poor laws existed and elderly were less likely to live with family
Family ties: are historic geographic trends involving elder care in northern/southern Europe similar today as I` the past
yes
Family ties: Elder care in pre-industrial Spain and Southern Europe was usually planned or contractually stated when?
marriage of the children, or inheritance documents.
Family ties: Oriental, muslim and North African familial traditions likely influenced
southern europe
Family ties: Germanic and christianized familial traditions likely influenced
northern europe
Family ties: the industrial revolution occurring first in Northern Europe is likely a cause or consequence of their weak family system
both a cause and a consequence.
Family ties: Economic modernization reinforces which type of family values
individual oriented family systems
Family ties: Modern implications for differences in whether or not a family is a strong family society or a weak family society (5)
greater social cohesions (homelessness), unemployment, young/teenage single mothers, loneliness, elder care
Family ties: What is the problem with saying that family trends in Europe are on the path to uniformity
it is antihistorical
