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First half of course Flashcards

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Analyzing the familiar: Anthropologists would state that family should be defined by the social structure or by biology

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social structure

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Analyzing the familiar: The formal definition of family is important because it informs (3)

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legislation, social policies, practices that govern our lives.

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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?

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Determines who you can marry, who has access to institutional documents (prison, hospital, school), who receives inheritance, and who you can help immigrate.

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Analyzing the familiar: How do the authors of the text define family?

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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.

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Analyzing the familiar: What is social reproduction

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the work of caring for children and meeting adult needs

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Analyzing the familiar: Who started structural functionalism

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Talcott Parsons

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Analyzing the familiar: The ideas of instrumental versus expressive roles being tuned for men versus woman was first proposed by which sociological theory

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Structural functionalism

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Analyzing the familiar: Which two scholars published works in support of structural functionalism as a plea to reinforce the heterosexual nuclear family

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Popenoe and Becker

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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)

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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.

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Analyzing the familiar: What is the theoretical perspective of political economy

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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

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Analyzing the familiar: What is an example of political economy

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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

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Analyzing the familiar: What is the task of post structuralism

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to reveal the ways in which particular truths are, produced, given legitimacy, and achieve power over the way we live

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Family economy: what dominated life in pre-industrial England and France households

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the work of producing subsistence

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Family economy: what defines a family economy

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an interdependence of work and residence, of household labour needs, subsistence requirements, and family relationships

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Family economy: In RURAL pre-industrial england and France which line of work employed most people/people were employed with

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agriculture.

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Family economy: What saying succinctly puts what a family was defined as in rural pre-industrial england and france

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a family is the groups of persons locked up for the night behind one lock.

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Family economy: In rural pre-industrial england and France, most (60%) individuals aged 15-24 were…

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servants

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Family economy: Agricultural capitalism led to…

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the enclosure of large areas of land and the gradual violent resistance and dispossession of small farms.

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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

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1750.

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Family economy: Difference between agricultural workers and those in the cottage industry

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agricultural workers left their home. Cottage industry workers worked in a home.

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Family economy: What were the largest urban manufacturing sectors in pre-industrial england and france

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production of food and clothing and the construction of housing

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22
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Family economy: Cities in pre-industrial england and France differed by

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business specializaton

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Family economy: businesses in urban pre-industrial england and France were organized by

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guilds

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Family economy: What is the difference between wage labourers and servants

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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.

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Family economy: Was meeting economic needs easily maintained in a family wage economy in urban pre-industrial England and france

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no, all combined wages were barely enough.

26
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Family economy: Were rural or urban family households more sufficient

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rural

27
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Family economy: Did marriage occur late or early in pre-industrial england and France and what are the reasons for this

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late (24/25 women and 27 men) women needed to have a dowry, apprentices needed to be done their training,

28
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Family economy: Was the birth rate high or low in pre industrial england and france

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low

29
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Family economy: How did the domestic industry which provided cash wages and jobs and occurred in 17th century england, influence marriage trends

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lt lowered the age of marriage

30
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Family economy: What economic event lowered the age of marriage in pre-industrial england- similarly to the domestic industry in the 17th century

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the growth of commercial agriculture and thus the demand for agricultural labourers.

31
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Family economy: Was never getting married more common in rural or urban areas in pre-industrial England and france

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urban

32
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Family economy: One reason time between births was so short in pre-industrial england and france

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the use of wet nurses

33
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Family economy: What were mortality rates like in pre-industrial england and france

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very high

34
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Family economy: were death rates higher in urban or rural areas in pre-industrial england and france

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urban

35
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Family economy: What was the average life expectancy (infant mortality included) in pre industrial england and france

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30

36
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Family economy: What was the average life expectancy (infant mortality not included) in pre industrial england and france

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50-60

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Family economy: was remarriage after being widowed common and for which gender

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yes and for men

38
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Family economy: What could be an alternative to a dowry for some women

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apprentice skills she grew up learning from her father

39
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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

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yes they could return home or simply stay in contact. This was more common among girls.

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Family economy: was premarital sex common? were bastards common? what happened to women who had bastard children

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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.

41
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Family economy: when could a women join a guild

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when her husband died and as long as she did not remarry

42
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Family economy: the loss of one partner usually led to…

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the destruction of that family economy

43
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Family economy: How was society in pre-industrial england and France patriarchal (3)

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adultery was legal for men but not for women, men could punish their wives, inheritance went to men,

44
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Family economy: Gender relations in pre-industrial england and France were primarily….

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equal

45
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Family economy: Was motherhood a special and distinct period in pre-industrial england and france

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no

46
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Family ties: Servantry in Southern Europe was more common in rural or urban areas

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urban

47
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Family ties: Were preindustrial youth more likely to be a servant in northern/Western Europe or southern Mediterranean europe

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northern/western.

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Family ties: Economic hardship experienced by young adults in pre-industrial Northern and western Europe fell onto the hands of:

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the struggling young adults

49
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Family ties: hardship experienced by young adults in pre-industrial Southern Europe fell onto the hands of

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the entire family group

50
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Family ties: Traditionally, in Mediterranean societies aid given to vulnerable members of socieity came from:

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family or individual charity

51
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Family ties: Traditionally in Northern Europe aid to vulnerable members of society came from:

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public and private institutions

52
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Family ties: Elderly care is a good example of

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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

53
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Family ties: are historic geographic trends involving elder care in northern/southern Europe similar today as I` the past

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yes

54
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Family ties: Elder care in pre-industrial Spain and Southern Europe was usually planned or contractually stated when?

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marriage of the children, or inheritance documents.

55
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Family ties: Oriental, muslim and North African familial traditions likely influenced

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southern europe

56
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Family ties: Germanic and christianized familial traditions likely influenced

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northern europe

57
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Family ties: the industrial revolution occurring first in Northern Europe is likely a cause or consequence of their weak family system

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both a cause and a consequence.

58
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Family ties: Economic modernization reinforces which type of family values

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individual oriented family systems

59
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Family ties: Modern implications for differences in whether or not a family is a strong family society or a weak family society (5)

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greater social cohesions (homelessness), unemployment, young/teenage single mothers, loneliness, elder care

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Family ties: What is the problem with saying that family trends in Europe are on the path to uniformity

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it is antihistorical

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