Answer one of the following questions, including the lettered questions, in Detail. The answer cannot be less than eight pages. All quotes must be explained. Sources other than DiFazio's Ordinary Poverty or Bradley's Gender, can not be used. Tests cannot be emailed.
1. In DiFazio's Ordinary Poverty: A Little Food and Cold Storage (ch.s 1,2) explain the following:
a. Explain the vocabulary shift in terms of poverty.
b. Explain the Conservative position.
c. Explain the Liberal position.
d. Explain the importance of the labor question as a critique of the two positions.
e. Compare and Contrast the Ethnographic accounts with the biographical accounts of poverty. How does this relate to the nature of social reality? Who do you agree with?
2. In Harriet Bradley, Gender, explain the following:
a. What is gender? Define and explain this dense and complex concept.
b. Explain the relations of class and gender and how they impact on growing up a boy and a girl?
c. Explain the relations of gender and modernity.
d. Locate yourself in terms of post-modernity and gender.