1. Place the agrarian family in a historical period. Family economy and production unit

are two concepts that describe the agrarian family. Explain these concepts and

discuss the reason for our romantic view of the agrarian family

2. What is Rubin's argument regarding care for the elder in agrarian families. Did reality

meet the ideal?

3. In what way does the USA's agrarian family was different from other Westem

nations?

4. Is there a difference between marriage in agrarian societies and marriage in

industrial societies? What concept is used in your textbook to emphasize the

difference?

5. What was children's role in agrarian families? What were the expected parent's

responsibilities/

6. Place the modern family in a historical period. What does "consumption unit" means?

How is the separation of work and home related to the modern family as a

"consumption unit"?

7. Define living wage. In which historical period did it exist? Does it still exist today?

Explain the impact of living wage on gender relations within the family.

8. Define urbanization. What is the economic precondition for urbanization and the

separation of work and the family.

9. Define nuclear family. Explain the factors leading to the emergence of the nuclear

family. Locate the emergence of this type of family in history.

10. Are the "nuclear family" and "privatization" the same thing?

11. What kind of social pathologies are attributed to the privatization of the family and

why.

12. What social factors lead to the gradual confinement of women to the home? What is

"domesticity3 Does it apply to all family members?

13. How does women's new role in the family relate to children's changing role within the

family? How were children perceived and how does this perception represent a

change?

14. What was the impact of the Accord on the family?

15. Explain the implicit contract between homemakers and breadwinners? What was the

new idea of success?

16. How did the Accord impacted family size and why? On mother-child relations? On

schooling? On the notion of childhood?

17. Which technological innovation came to define the ideal of family and economic

success? What was this ideal about?

18. What factor made consumption possible? Did it appear during the Accord or it

already exists?

19. How did the reality of suburban middle-class women compare to TV's ideal family?

Who is Petty Friedman?

20. How did the cult of domesticity and the end of WWII affected female workers?

21.What double burden did women confronted in the 1960s?

22. What technological innovation permitted the distinction between sex and

procreation? What other social implications did these changes have? How did the

gay movement contribute to shape society's views on sex and procreation?

23. List the recent statistics on the family in the 1990s. Discuss

24. How does geographic mobility impacts the family and what factor allows for this to be possible?

25. What do flexibility in non-work roles and flexible selves mean? Is this phenomenon

class specific?

26. How does the flexible economy impact the working-class family? What is the new

notion of extended family?

27. Summarize Wilson's argument on the urban underclass. How has globalization

impacted women, children and minorities/

28. Define feminization of poverty. Explain the three ways that ind