TY - JOUR AU - Mederer, Helen PY - 2010/04/26 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Work and Family Life JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/work-and-family-life SP - AB - How do we, as a culture, manage to perform the essential tasks of caregiving on the one hand, and produce the goods and services necessary for survival, on the other hand? How did we come to this situation of incompatibility between two essential social institutions? And what might we do as a culture to change this incompatibility?This course will consider these questions at length. The course organization and readings are designed to help us understand how families and the economy are interconnected social institutions, and how changes in both institutions, as well as in individual choices, political trends, and cultural values have resulted in incompatibility between work and family life. We’ll discuss some possible policy responses that might help to change the incompatibility as well as shift the way we think about the place of both work and family in our lives. ER -