PPS Text

1. Designed by Karen Saucier Lundy to supplement the textbook Families in
Context: Sociological Perspectives, by Gene H. Starbuck and Karen Saucier
Lundy. For publication information about the text:
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3.  The economic institution
▪Phase 1 (1760-1850)
▪Phase 2 (1850-1900)
▪Phase 3 (1900-1940)
▪Phase 4 (1940-1970)
▪The industrial workforce

5.  Table 3.1: Summary of Modes of Production
and Social Institutions
 REVIEW inTEXT (Chapter 3) p. 78
 Relationship between technology,
capitalism, religion, and family: Weber’s
Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of
Capitalism.

6.  “In order that a manner of life well adapted to
the peculiarities of the capitalism… could
come to dominate others, it had to originate
somewhere, and not in isolated individuals
alone, but as a way of life common to the
whole groups of man.” MaxWeber

7.  The Puritan wanted to work in calling; we are forced to
do so. For when asceticism was carried out of
monastic cells into everyday life, and began to
dominate worldly morality, it did its part in building
the tremendous cosmos of the modern economic
order. This order is now bound to the technical and
economic conditions of machine production which
today determine the lives of all the individuals who
are born into this mechanism, not only those directly
concerned with economic acquisition, with irresistible
force. Perhaps it will so determine them until the last
ton of fossilized coal is burnt. (Page 181, 1953
Scribner's edition.)

8.  “In Baxter’s view the care for external goods
should only lie on the shoulders of the 'saint
like a light cloak, which can be thrown aside
at any moment.' But fate decreed that the
cloak should become an iron cage.“

9.  Literacy and the Spirit of Capitalism
 Protestantism has indeed influenced
positively the capitalist development of
respective social systems not so much
through the "Protestant ethics" but rather
through the promotion of literacy.
 The ability to read was essential for
Protestants (unlike Catholics) to perform
their religious duty − to read the Holy Bible.

12.  The religious institution
▪ The Protestant Reformation
▪ Secularization
 Political institutions
 The educational institution
 Demographic changes
▪ Population growth
▪ Migration
▪ Life expectancy

16.  Goode’s Family Analysis
▪Geographic mobility
▪Social mobility
▪“Achieved” occupational status
▪Specialization and function
differentiation

18.  The conjugal family form
▪ More nuclear and less extended
▪ Kinship more bilateral
▪ Mate selection based on choice
▪ Economic exchanges at marriage
disappear
▪ Families become more egalitarian
 Treatment of children

21.  The Oneida Community as intentional community
 Mormons
▪ Polygyny
▪ Celestial marriage
▪ Gender roles
 Noncapitalist Industrialization and Families:
The Soviet Union

25.  Traditional China
▪ TheTsu
▪ Religion
 The traditional family
 The family in the People’s Republic of China
▪ Institutional context
▪ Family changes
▪ The one-child policy

27.  What kind of intentional community would
you create?

28. "An economic system in which production and
distribution are controlled by private individuals
or groups and guided by the profit motive" is:
A. Communism.
B. Socialism.
C. A command economy.
D. Capitalism
E. Syndicalism

29.  According to MaxWeber, what impact did the
Protestant Reformation have?
 A. It discouraged individuality.
 B. It taught that work was punishment for
sin.
 C. It was compatible with the development
of capitalism.
 D. It encouraged superstition and fatalism.
 E. All of the above.