What role do you think economic globalization plays in legal and illegal

1. What role do you think economic globalization plays in legal and illegal immigration to the United States?

2. Why is it in the interest of global North workers to organize with global South workers for higher wages?

3.What families might be most vulnerable to the negative impacts of the Great Recession? Why? Do you feel that your family has been affected by the recession? If not, why not? If yes, why and in what ways?

4.Imagine that the institution of the family suddenly disappeared. How might U.S. society be different without this primary institution? Do you think U.S. society could survive without it? Why or why not?

5.Which theoretical perspective, conflict theory or functionalism, would you choose to best make sense of how the economic institution operates in U.S. society? Why?