Sociology of families. Psychology Term Paper Assignment

1. How does trans parenting as well as gay parenting shift the norms associated with family life? In this question, you should: a. Demonstrate that you understand what trans and gay parenting involve
b. Reflect on whether there are similarities and differences between trans parenting and gay parenting
2. Using Spencer’s work on the Sixties Scoop, discuss what settler colonialism is and how removing Indigenous children from their families is a strategy of constructing and preserving white settler society. While the reading ought to be central in your answer, you may also draw on the lecture from Week 9 (The Sixties Scoop and Nationhood). 
3. This term, we have studied myths and realities about how families live and survive. In this question, you are asked to reflect on the practical realities that challenge conventional notions of what family life looks like. Draw on any 2 course readings from the list below (and lectures from the appropriate weeks) 
1. Discuss the split between the nuclear family model and the lived realities of how families actually organize their lives at an everyday level. Draw on concepts of extensive mothering, contemporary fatherhood, and gender roles to answer the question.Readings 
i. Dorothy Smith. 1993. “The Standard North American Family: SNAF as an Ideological Code.” Journal of Family Issues, 14(1): 50-65. 
ii. Jesper Andreasson and Thomas Johansson. 2016. “Global Narratives of Fatherhood: Fathering and Masculinity on the Internet.” International Review of Sociology, 26(3): 482-496 
iii. Ping-Chun Hsiung and Katherine Nichol. 2010. “Policies on and Experiences of Foreign Domestic Workers in Canada.” Sociology Compass, 4(9): 766-778. 
iv. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez. 2018. “Skype Mothers and Facebook Children,” in Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1-23. 
v. Karen Christopher. 2012. “Extensive Mothering: Employed Mother Constructions of the Good Mother.” Gender & Society, 26(1): 73-96. 
vi. Lan Anh Hoang and Brenda S. A. Yeoh. 2011. “Breadwinning Wives and ‘Left-Behind’ Husbands: Men and Masculinities in the Vietnamese Transnational Family.” Gender & Society, 25(6): 717-739.