Free essay on Changing American Families by Judy Root Aulette
Uploaded by summer10 on Oct 01, 2012
Chapter two of Judy Root Aulette text “Changing American families” is about the history of U.S families with the main concentration on the history of the Euro Americans in the United States. In this chapter Aulette give supporting information on why it is necessary to analyze the social history of families as we begin to further understand families on a whole. This chapter “summarizes and reviews the history of families in the United States from the colonial time period up until the mid twentieth century” (Aullette26). The chapter demonstrates the transition of families from one economic system to another during specific time periods and analyzing the historical changes. With the author revealing to the reader how families within the United States have actually changed over time and how the development of each economy affects each family.
Based on the information provided in the text on page (26) of “Changing American Families” the whole point of this chapter is to demonstrate how the organization family began to change as the industrial revolution began to formulate. Different sections were incorporated in the chapter to help understand the whole concept of Euro Americans family history in the United States. Within the first section of the chapter the author gave information on U.S history and family throughout different time periods. For example the industrialization, the pioneer era and colonial America was elaborated in brief information. The second section mentioned the ways in which history has been broken down into periods and the way in which these periods affected historical changes. In the last section of the chapter the author described how the women movement has developed as a way of seeking changes in the organization of family in American society. Some important points that were revealed in this chapter were the relationship of two systems, the economical system and family. The information helped to understand the concept that as the economy began to become more industrialized, families also began to change with the economic system. Aullete mentioned that “It is along with the pattern of macro level changes in the economy causes micro level changes in the organization of families” (Aullette 26).
I find it quite relevant to study the history of U.S. families with the first focus on the Euro Americans since the text mentioned that they were the first set if immigrants to enter North America. It is very interesting...