What is SNAF? How does this image affect our ideology about families and our judgments about families?
What will be an ideal response?
SNAF is an acronym for Standard North American Family, which refers to an
idealized family with a male breadwinner, a female homemaker, and two children. This
image, promulgated in the media, especially in the 1950s, became an ideal against
which many people judge all families. However, SNAF refers to a particular family
structure and has nothing to do with whether the processes within the family are healthy. It also refers to a type of family that has been in the minority throughout the
U.S. history, so there really has been no time in history when SNAF represented most
Americans’ experiences.
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a. 125 b. 250 c. 500 d. 750
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a.) international business. b.) globalization. c.) civilization d.) equality of condition
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A. feminist perspective B. conflict perspective C. interactionist perspective D. functionalist perspective