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Industrialization and FamiliesChapter 4

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Industrial Institutions

 The economic institution▪Phase 1 (1760-1850)▪Phase 2 (1850-1900)▪Phase 3 (1900-1940)▪Phase 4 (1940-1970)▪The industrial workforce

Table 3.1: Summary of Modes of Production and Social Institutions

REVIEW in TEXT (Chapter 3) p. 78

Relationship between technology, capitalism, religion, and family: Weber’s Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

From Weber:

“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.” Max Weber

From Weber:

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.)

The Iron Cage of capitalism according to Weber:

“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.“

To be literate….

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.

1944

Industrial Institutions (con’t)

The religious institution▪ The Protestant Reformation▪ Secularization

Political institutions The educational institution Demographic changes

▪ Population growth▪ Migration▪ Life expectancy

Gender Roles 1950s

Industrialization and Families

Goode’s Family Analysis▪Geographic mobility▪Social mobility▪“Achieved” occupational status

▪Specialization and function differentiation

Industrialization and Families (con’t)

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

Child Labor

The Industrialization Backlash in North America

The Oneida Community as intentional community

Mormons▪ Polygyny▪ Celestial marriage▪ Gender roles

Noncapitalist Industrialization and Families: The Soviet Union

Mormon Family

Oneida Family 1897

Russia

Noncapitalist Industrialization and Families: China

Traditional China▪ The Tsu▪ Religion

The traditional family The family in the People’s Republic of

China▪ Institutional context▪ Family changes▪ The one-child policy

Family Planning as national policy

What do you think now?

What kind of intentional community would you create?

Test Yourself!

"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. CapitalismE. Syndicalism

Test yourself!

According to Max Weber, 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.