Lecture 12 Reproducing Society

Question 1

what is a nuclear family

Answer 1

comprises two married opposite sex parents and their biological children who share the same residence

Question 2

what is a traditional nuclear family

Answer 2

a nuclear family in which the husband works outside the home for money and the wife works without pay in the home

Question 3

what are the two types of family formations

Answer 3

nuclear family, and a traditional nuclear family

Question 4

what does SNAF stand for

Answer 4

the standard North American family

Question 5

what is SNAF

Answer 5

the family as a legally married couple sharing a household, traditional gender roles, and children

Question 6

what class is SNAF constructed in

Answer 6

middle-class

Question 7

what caused the idealization of SNAF

Answer 7

post-war economic and social context

Question 8

when was SNAF dominant

Answer 8

in 1950s and 1960s

Question 9

what is a functionalists view on the nuclear ideal

Answer 9

they view the family as a central institution in society

Question 10

how did Talcott Parsons and Robert Bales view the nuclear ideal

Answer 10

the family’s division of labour as the key to its success as an institution

Question 11

what is social reproduction

Answer 11

the social, ecconomic, ideological, and political processes that preserve society and its parts over time

Question 12

what does it mean to reproduce society

Answer 12

the physical, emotional, and embodied labor associated with producing each new generation of workers, citizens, and society members

Question 13

what are key sites of social reproduction

Answer 13

schools and families

Question 14

how do schools and families help social reproduction

Answer 14

they perform manifest and latent social functions

Question 15

what is the most important function of schools

Answer 15

to teach students obedience

Question 16

what is a conflict theorists perspective on social reproduction in school

Answer 16

they suggest that schools primarily train children in the skills needed to succeed in alienating work

Question 17

what does the hidden curriculum teach

Answer 17

it teaches children their eventual adult class position

Question 18

what is ideological state apparatuses (ISA)

Answer 18

the educational, political, legal, religious, and cultural systems to forward the interests of the ruling class

Question 19

how do schools socialize by gender

Answer 19

boys and girls are differently socialized in order to prepare them for gendered adult roles and hierachies

Question 20

how are institutions of higher education promoting themselves

Answer 20

as training grounds for the future workforce, rather than as institutions of critical thinking or education for the public good

Question 21

what are the classical conceptualizations of social reproduction

Answer 21

that domestic labor is necessary for the reproduction of the labor force

Question 22

what do marxist feminists highlight about social reproduction in the family

Answer 22

they highlight the reliance of capitalism on work carried out within the home

Question 23

what is a feminist theorist perspective on social reproduction

Answer 23

sexual division of labor under capitalism is highlighted

Question 24

what are the four ways social reproduction happens in the family

Answer 24

families biologically reproduce the next generation of workers and raise them until they are ready to enter the workforce, families ideologically reproduce the next generation of workers by teaching them how to work compliantly, families help maintain class hierarchies, single legal marriage and reproduction preserve stable patters of private property ownership, and though unpaid social reproductive work, capitalist business receive a continued supply of exploitable workers

Question 25

how would a conflict theorist view industrialization

Answer 25

as one of the most important of changes, since it saw the family change from a self-sustaining unit of production to a unit of consumption in a society marked by consumer capitalism

Question 26

what does a conflict theorist focus on in relation to social reproduction

Answer 26

political and economic changes that have affect family life

Question 27

what is postwar consumerism

Answer 27

historic shift from needs-based advertising to desire-based advertising

Question 28

what influences young adult home-leaving patterns

Answer 28

housing costs, labor precocity, and shifts in immigration, and parenting styles

Question 29

what may cause young adults to become “victims” of delayed adulthood

Answer 29

over-protective parenting styles

Question 30

how do those with the ‘failure to launch’ ideology see young adults delayed adulthood

Answer 30

laziness, narcissism, self obsession

Question 31

what is homonormativity

Answer 31

the idea that sexual minorities can and should confirm to heteronormative roles

Question 32

what are four types of non-nuclear families

Answer 32

raising children gender neutral, childcare families, non-monogamy, or aromatic/asexual

Question 33

what is a way of raising children gender neutral

Answer 33

diversity of toys, clothes, gender-neutral name and pronouns, allow child to self define