Soc 276: Dr. Jiping Zuo, Fall 2017Study Guide For the Final Exam
Although the review guide is organized around book chapters, all additional readings posted on D2L, the lecture notes, and class
exercises/discussions/videos are also included. When you review, it is imperative to understand the main points/central arguments,
make connections among concepts and definitions, theories and research findings. More specifically, the test may include but not
limited to the following items. To make your review a coherent one, instead of revolving the central points around specific readings, I
organize them according to our weekly activities since Exam 1. You may find the relevant book chapters from the syllabus and all the
relevant reading materials at the D2L Content modules:
Transnational employment and marriages (marriage for a better life)
(note: according to the syllabus, this section should include Karraker’s Chapter 5, but I moved it to next section in my ppt notes and
hence this review)
Some key points and questions: Meanings of marriage for immigrant women from the Third World; Opportunities and obstacles they confront; Global inequality reflected in intimate migration; The social nature of cross-border marriage through experiences of immigrants and world history; social means marriage for
group well-being rather than, or in addition to, personal happiness; Arranged marriage as earlier patterns of world marriage form which change according to broader societal changes; Understanding contemporary marriages from the historical perspective;
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7. How do women from poor countries marry men from rich countries reflect global inequality?
What gaps exist between dreams of migration and barriers to migration?
What are purposes of Third World women marrying men from the First and Second World? For family
What are some venues for cross-border marriages to happen?
The stories of migrants becoming victims and/or perpetrators and the circumstances under which they happen.
Can one rich country build fences to stop illegal immigrants from entering the country? Why or why not?
How prevalent is arranged marriage around the world? Has that only been the phenomenon among non-Western societies
according world history? 80%; existed in the West as well—marriage as social.
8. What was marriage designed for? Political alliances, production and reproduction.
9. Are love-based marriages happier compared to arranged marriages? How? No.
10. What is the relationship between marriage and class? Marriage as the privilege of the rich, not a matter of choice.
11. How do we understand low marriage rates among African American families? Unaffordability, not attitudes.
Love displaced-transnational employment and migrant mothers (and fathers)
Some key points: Class in global context seen through, for example, care work; Work-family conflict on the global scale; Gender inequality as part of work-family conflict; Work-family linkage (i.e. work and family affect each other) across borders; Immigrant families’ experiences shaped by national policies.
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4. What are characteristics of transnational employment in ongoing globalization?
How may transnational employment pattern further contribute to inequality between rich and poor countries?
How is the domestic employment treated different from other types of employment under globalization?
What are global care chains? How does this reflect inequality between Third World women in transnational domestic
employment and First and Second World middle-class career women. And how is this created and developed? 1 5.
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7. How do transnational domestic workers help fill gender gaps in middle-class families in the West?
How does transnational domestic work affect female domestic workers’ well-being and their families?
Is Third World women in transnational domestic employment a win-win situation for these women and their families as well
as middle-class women in rich countries? How so?
8. How do you understand the persistence of gendered division of labor at home?
9. What are challenges to women from both rich and poor countries?
10. How does neoliberalism help generate poverty in Third World countries, using the Philippines as an example (see Ligaya
Lindio-McGovern’s article on D2L)?
Gender relations
Some key points:
1. Multilayered patriarchy in non-Western societies (e.g Zuo’s study on traditional Chinese families) ;
2. Two-sidedness in gender (in)equality in both in non-Western and Western families;
3. Social construction theory of gender theory;
4. Social construction of power theories.
Questions:
1. What is a multilayered patriarchy? How does it work?
2. According to the authors, Western migrant women tend to lose marital power when marrying a non-Western man (e.g. the AngloIndian couple, p. 124)? How does this happen? Why so?
3. The authors also observe that non-Western migrant women gain power when marrying a man from Western societies? How does
this work? How do you explain this?
4. How do women and men of immigrants select their mates? How does gender play out?
5. What is social construction of gender theory? How do you explain gendered behavior and relations described in BB, Chapter 7?
6. What is social construction of family power? Dependency theory and cultural perspectives
Based on Zuo’s article on family patriarchy in traditional China (on D2L):
1. How many layers of family patriarch were there in traditional China?
2. Did the man of a junior couple have power when living with his parents?
3. What was the nature of the man’s mother’s power? What was her position in the patriarchal family system?
4. How did the man’s mother gain power in her life course?
5. What did the Chinese case study tell us about the relationship between generation- and gender-based patriarchy? In other
words, how do we understand male power in a family system where there are two-layered patriarchy?
Transnational family networks
Some key points: Problems with linear thinking of modernization; Recognition of various paths to modernization and various type so modernization; Family-run enterprises and family relations.
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4. What is modernization? What are some of modernization assumptions and arguments?
What do family enterprises say about the modernization path?
What do family relations look at in family enterprises compared with non-business families?
How do we understand unequal family relations in family enterprises? Intimate is global: the model of distant love
Some key points: Ways in which globalization hits home (i.e. how we experience globalization in our domestic lives); Important global issues that affect family lives, such as global inequality, cross-border communication, national frontiers,
national legal systems, etc.; Impact of structural adjustment imposed by IMF/World Bank on debtor nations on family well-being; Please first understand 2 what structural adjustment is;
Deterioration of working class families in the U.S. in the midst of globalization, addressed by Stephanie Coontz, an American
historian and sociologist (see her article in the module “Intimate is Global.” Questions:
1. In which ways may families experience inequality among family members from different countries?
2. In which ways may immigrant families experience inequality within the family?
3. Does race make also make a difference?
4. How may global inequality challenge contemporary Western definition of family, using the example of German husband and
a Thai wife?
5. How do you reflect on Section 4 “Beyond National Law”?
6. How do you understand “clashing ideas” between the West and non-West?
7. How do globalization affect working-class families in the West, using the U.S. as an example?
8. What are challenges faced by contemporary families?
9. What are global policies concerning family well-being?
10. What did IMF and the World Bank do to Third World debt nations? Impact on their family well-being?
11. Which countries in EU do not see child care as a private, family responsibility?
12. Why does Karraker think family rights are human rights?
13. What is Marsha A. Freeman’s argument about family issues as human rights issues (see Karraker, pp.212-219).
International violence and families
Some key points: Various ways in which international violence impacts on families; Linkages between globalization and violence; Ways in which families show their resilience to International violence
Questions:
1. What are “international systems of oppression” that Karraker refers to?
2. What are forms of international violence? How do they affect family lives?
3. Karraker does not see a direct connection between globalization and war (p. 130); the instructor disagrees. What evidence did the
instructor show in class that confirms connections between globalization and war?
4. Does international violence affect your family life? If so, then, how?
5. Ways in which colonialism is related to world conflicts today?
6. How does war exacerbate crimes such as sex/human trafficking?
7. What is the nature of rape and sexual slaves? Against women or humanity?
8. Ways in which war affects marriage and marital relations?
9. How do families and individuals caught in the war show their resilience?
10. Jannifer Blank’s article attached to Karraker, Chapter 4, pp. 151-155.
11. Why do some young people join ISIS? 3

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