Question

Olivia is married and has two children. She works full-time and struggles to get off of work early to make it to her kids' school play. She also often runs late coming home due to commuting traffic, which cuts into her time to spend with family. Olivia and her husband share household duties, but she finds that they often have to catch up with house cleaning and upkeep on the weekends due to their work schedules.
In this example, Olivia's situation most resembles that of:

a.AIssues between work and family institutions found in preindustrial society more often than today.

b.Current issues between work and family institutions rather than preindustrial times.

Answer 1

Answer:

The most befitting answer is b. Current issues between work and family institutions rather than preindustrial times.

Explanation:

In this example, Olivia’s situation is similar to the issues that are being experienced in the modern-day era which is post-industrial: as opposed to the pre-industrial times—in which women often took care of the kids and household duties, while men worked part-time/full-time in offices—the present-day post-industrial era of work for husband and wife (who live in the same house) is mostly characterized by equal (or almost equal) share of household duties, attendance to office work, and the challenge of commuting from home to office, and back to home. In the present-day, women have taken up more roles in office, politics and leadership, as opposed to the pre-industrial times; husbands have been much more involved in household activities, and the increase in population and automobiles has made commuting to take up a lot of time.

Answer 2

Answer: B. Current issues between work and family institutions rather than preindustrial times.

Explanation:

The fact that Olivia has a full-time job that exposes her to commuting traffic shows that this example refers to contemporary problems and not those of the preindustrial era.

Furthermore, Olivia and her husband sharing household duties is a modern arrangement difficult to even imagine in a preindustrial time, when household chores were exclusively done by women.