Exam 3: Families Throughout History

The "cult of domesticity" suggested that women's proper role was to support their husbands and nurture their children because the world of work was unsuitable for women's delicate nature and naturally higher moral standards.

Which type of societies had subsistence economies?

Pretend that you are a 20-year-old White woman in colonial America. Which of the following would likely describe aspects of your courtship and partnering?

Detailed written accounts and interpretations of some aspect of culture are called ________.

The year is 1886. You are 16 years old and have immigrated from Poland with your family. What may have been your experience in the U.S.?

The 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920, and finally gave ________ the right to ________.

Compare and contrast family life in hunting/gathering societies vs. horticultural and agrarian societies.

Studying family history has shown us that families rarely faced the issues we face today, such as desertion, poverty, children born out of wedlock, cohabitation, alcoholism, unemployment, or abuse.

Bundling is a term used to describe the glorification of women's domestic role.

Companionate marriages are defined as:

Some people think that in the "good old days" we had fewer family problems such as divorce, poverty, or family violence. What do other people say?

Compare and contrast families in the era of the 1950s with those of the 1960s and 1970s. What factors contributed to the differences between these two eras?

The increase in jobs that are part-time, sub-contracted, temporary in nature, occur at night, or offer irregular work schedules are called nonstandard work schedules.

You are living in the Middle Ages. Your father has decided that the family farm will go to your oldest brother now that he can no longer take care of it. You are left with nothing. This is a practice known as:

Which of the following best characterizes Mexican families in the United States?

Write an essay about family life in colonial America. Be sure to describe issues surrounding courtship and partnering, household structure, relationships between husbands and wives, and parenting.

The "cult of domesticity" refers to ________.

The 1960s and 1970s were a time of significant social change that affected families, including the civil rights movement, the women's movement, and the anti-war movement. What caused society to critically question so many dimensions of social life all at once, according to your text?

What was so unique about the 1950s?

Sonja, her brothers, and her parents moved to the U.S from Eastern Europe during the 1890s, an event called ________.