First half of course

Question 1

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

Answer 1

social structure

Question 2

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

Answer 2

legislation, social policies, practices that govern our lives.

Question 3

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?

Answer 3

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

Question 4

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

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

Analyzing the familiar: What is social reproduction

Answer 5

the work of caring for children and meeting adult needs

Question 6

Analyzing the familiar: Who started structural functionalism

Answer 6

Talcott Parsons

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Structural functionalism

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Popenoe and Becker

Question 9

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)

Answer 9

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.

Question 10

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

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Analyzing the familiar: What is an example of political economy

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Analyzing the familiar: What is the task of post structuralism

Answer 12

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

Question 13

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

Answer 13

the work of producing subsistence

Question 14

Family economy: what defines a family economy

Answer 14

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

Question 15

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

Answer 15

agriculture.

Question 16

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

Answer 16

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

Question 17

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

Answer 17

servants

Question 18

Family economy: Agricultural capitalism led to…

Answer 18

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

Question 19

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

Answer 19

1750.

Question 20

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

Answer 20

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

Question 21

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

Answer 21

production of food and clothing and the construction of housing

Question 22

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

Answer 22

business specializaton

Question 23

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

Answer 23

guilds

Question 24

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

Answer 24

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.

Question 25

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

Answer 25

no, all combined wages were barely enough.

Question 26

Family economy: Were rural or urban family households more sufficient

Answer 26

rural

Question 27

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

Answer 27

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

Question 28

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

Answer 28

low

Question 29

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

Answer 29

lt lowered the age of marriage

Question 30

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

Answer 30

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

Question 31

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

Answer 31

urban

Question 32

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

Answer 32

the use of wet nurses

Question 33

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

Answer 33

very high

Question 34

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

Answer 34

urban

Question 35

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

Answer 35

30

Question 36

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

Answer 36

50-60

Question 37

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

Answer 37

yes and for men

Question 38

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

Answer 38

apprentice skills she grew up learning from her father

Question 39

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

Answer 39

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

Question 40

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

Answer 40

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.

Question 41

Family economy: when could a women join a guild

Answer 41

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

Question 42

Family economy: the loss of one partner usually led to...

Answer 42

the destruction of that family economy

Question 43

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

Answer 43

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

Question 44

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

Answer 44

equal

Question 45

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

Answer 45

no

Question 46

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

Answer 46

urban

Question 47

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

Answer 47

northern/western.

Question 48

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

Answer 48

the struggling young adults

Question 49

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

Answer 49

the entire family group

Question 50

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

Answer 50

family or individual charity

Question 51

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

Answer 51

public and private institutions

Question 52

Family ties: Elderly care is a good example of

Answer 52

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

Question 53

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

Answer 53

yes

Question 54

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

Answer 54

marriage of the children, or inheritance documents.

Question 55

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

Answer 55

southern europe

Question 56

Family ties: Germanic and christianized familial traditions likely influenced

Answer 56

northern europe

Question 57

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

Answer 57

both a cause and a consequence.

Question 58

Family ties: Economic modernization reinforces which type of family values

Answer 58

individual oriented family systems

Question 59

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

Answer 59

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

Question 60

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

Answer 60

it is antihistorical