Question 1:

"While work and family have changed, the private and public policies and practices governing employment remain mired in the past, modeled on the image of an ideal worker as a male breadwinner, with a supportive wife at home'' (Bailyn et al 2001:1)

(a) How do the structural-functionalists analyse the link between the family and the level of industrial development?

(b) Critically examine the Marxist-feminist views on the family in industrialised societies.

Question 2:

(a) How is ‘work' marked off from other activities? Use examples to discuss the extent to which ‘work' is socially defined.

(b) Apart from its economic importance, what does work determine in the life of an individual?