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Family isn't necessarily |
People you're blood related to & it isn't always warm, fuzzy, & inviting. |
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Why do we construct families? |
For the sharing of resources, whether monetary, emotional, etc. |
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Some of the limitations of the family & work line of research include the focus on |
Selective categories of workers & industrialized nations |
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Long hours, poor quality jobs, little control over working time, & overload at work are strongly associated with |
Poorer work-family interaction |
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What is more common: negative work-to-family interaction or negative family-to-work interaction? |
Negative work to family |
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What are the two types of work-family strain & which is worse? |
General strain is worse than time-based strain |
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What are some of the limitations of today's research on work and families? |
Most of the work has been done in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia. It's first world centric |
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The existing body of work over researches them |
Professional and managerial workers living in rural couple households with children |
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There's a little research done on how work, family, and this intersect |
Community |
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Includes activities undertaken in paid employment or through self-employment |
Work |
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Defined as a group who pool social life, money, and time to sustain their everyday life |
Family |
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What immediately affect the individual? |
Microsystems |
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What is the order of the different systems we live in within society? |
Microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem |
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Relative power of employees and employers, difference between men and women, prevailing technologies, work cultures the nature of the regulatory regime and immigration arrangements |
These are several factors that are consistently relevant at each level of work |
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What are the four aspects of work, family, and community that are influential? |
Time, space, life stage, power |
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How spatially separated and distant from each other the aspects of work, family, and community are |
Space |
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This between socioeconomic groups, employers and employees, men and women, and ethnic groups all affect the demands and resources that are experienced in each domain |
Power |
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This has been scarcely studied but men's work has received all the attention |
Household work |
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This progression in education and employment has improved, but not nearly as much as the improvement between social classes |
Women's progression |
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This was developed as a response to social movements and their demands for changes in the social and economic situation |
Feminist activism |
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By the 1990s, this research was included in academic practice |
Feminist perspectives and gender research |
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This is important in relation to increasingly competitive economic times that have exacerbated rather than eroded women's inequalities |
Gender studies |
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What was Smith's innovative question regarding women's work? |
Whether mothers work in families was comparable to paid employment within the economic system and he assumed that it could be |
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In what realm of society in relation to children have poor and working class families found to be in a serious position of inequality? |
School and education |
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This type of work consisted of a similar form to other kinds of economic work within the labor market |
Mothering work |
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It was originally assumed that the engine of social and gender inequalities lay in the economic system and the inequalities en gendered through paid work. It is now believed that this relation is far more complex antibodies not only economic processes that also psychic and emotional ones |
Family school relation |
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Expectations about this influences the practice of learning and teaching both in schools and home |
Normal families and mothers care for their children |
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Despite the opening up of economic and educational opportunities for women, |
Schools and families are increasingly reproducing the inequalities that they were supposed to be tackling |
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It's been argued that the political changes in North America have led to increasing advantages for these people and greater inequalities amongst these people |
middle class families, poor and working class families |
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And orderly set of ideas which describe, explain, and predict behavior |
Theory |
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These give meaning to what we observe, and are used as a basis for action finding ways to improve the lives of individuals within society |
Theories |
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These are primarily designed to be helpful but sometimes end up being a harmful |
Theories |
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Interdisciplinary theory about nature, science, etc |
Systems theory |
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Best theoretical framework that study organisms or mechanical objects. Idea based on how ideas and societies fit together |
Systems Theory |
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Based off of the systems theory, our modern society lives in what kind of system? |
Educational |
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Individuals cannot be understood separate from their family |
Family systems theory |
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What is the first sister in society of you are a part of as a person? |
Family |
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This theory these families as emotional support, financial aid, source of moral teaching |
Family systems theory |
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Interrelationships among systems shapes a child's life |
Ecological systems theory |
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Immediate surroundings. School, parents, friends |
Microsystem |
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Relationships among entities involved in the micro system. Example: parents talking to teachers |
Mesosystem |
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Social institutions that impact indirectly. Families jobs, mass media |
Exosystem |
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Cultural values, laws. Local community |
Macro system |
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Changes during life personally and culturally. A system that can move around at any time |
Chrono system |
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Changes in the system can affect everything about someone's life through all of the levels |
Chrono system |
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What is an example of? You get into a car accident, you can't afford a new car as a parent, see your child has to walk to school, which means they have to get up earlier, which means they can't concentrate as well |
How's the chrono system can affect every aspect of life |
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Theory that men and women should be equal |
Feminist theory |
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Work is divided by gender. Patriarchy affects both men and women and how they exist in society. If you don't fall within a feminine or masculine category, society doesn't know where to put you |
Feminist theory |
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Evaluates race and racism from a legal point of view |
Critical race theory |
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This is ingrained in the fabric of American society |
Racism |
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Past research that did this helps to further the continuation of disenfranchisement of these groups |
Generalized specific races of people |
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Describes how oppressive institutions are interconnected and can't be examined separately |
Intersectionality |
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These make it possible to explore the whole life span, - discover the meaning and motives for observable behavior, and to chart developmental trajectories |
One-on-one interviews |
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Focusing on this rather than the forms families assumed at any given moment led to the availability to group families by how well they were able to adapt in the face of change |
The paths that families took |
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When surveyed, some young people the living in this type of family as a benefit, while others saw it as a disadvantage |
Traditional family |
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Why do perceptions matter? |
Because views of the past inform future actions |
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Have the birth rates dropped or increased over the last hundred years? |
Dropped dramatically |
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What two factors led to a large increase in the population of people 50 and older living in an empty nest and an increasing proportion of elderly Americans living alone? |
Extensions of life and reductions in birth |
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The elderly today end their parenting ______, they have _____children and they live _____ in the elderly a few generations ago |
Earlier, fewer, longer |
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The increasing delay in marriage contributed to what? |
Premarital sex |
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This, both before and after marriage has increased significantly in the last few decades |
Cohabitation |
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There are consistently rising rates of children living with |
A single parent |
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What proportion of Americans get married at some point in life? |
A great majority |
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What do Americans prefer when it comes to households? |
Married couples with children |
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Single parenting has become disproportionately a trouble for which community? |
The black community |
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The blacks and whites equally values the aspiration of getting married, blacks have become |
More disappointed with or even cynical about marriage |
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This claim that the family lost its functions to the state and other institutions and therefore became weaker |
Classic sociological theories of the family |
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Troubles with marriages and parenting are highly among Americans with |
Disadvantages |
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For more advantage Americans, being on Wed, childless, or divorced is less a matter of necessity and |
More a matter of new opportunities |
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What are the five stages of the family life cycle? |
Independence, coupling / marriage, parenting, launching adult children, retirement |
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This stage includes: critical skill building, being able to care for self in a different way, having to adjust to new people |
Launching adult Children / empty nest |
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Developing a new type of relationship with children is a key skill in which stage? |
Empty nest / launching adult children |
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What is the boomerang generation? |
When kids move out but have to come back to live with parents |
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What is an example of economics coming back to affect economics? |
When people can't leave home at a certain age, they don't buy houses or large goods and it comes back to impact the economy |
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What proportion of Americans are living in a multi-generational home? |
One in six |
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Multigenerational home with adult children over 21 living at home with parents |
Accordion household |
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This is not the norm for the middle class since before World War 2 |
A multi-generational home with adult children over 21 living with their parents |
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Multi-generational family households become associated with this when adult children are moving toward becoming independent |
Shame or frustration |
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What big issues can cause a strain on a multi-generational household? |
When a household is financially strained or when different generations don't agree on child-rearing practices |
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Think support for the family members of the big aspects of which stage of life? |
Retirement |