Question for Jeff Pasley's section: option 2

This question relates to what we are going to talk about Thursday in lecture:

• Taking present-day America or any other time and place you happen to know something about (name it) as your example, describe any connections and common elements you see between the social and the political ideals and values prevalent in that time and place. To put it another way, were there any similarities between the way that people thought the family should be and the way they thought their community and their country should be structured?