Soc. Of The Fam Test 1

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science

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the process of creating (and modifying) theories that are tested through systematic research. E.g. what are the consequences of divorce for children? (not primarily a matter of opinion or political views)

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scientific method: theory and research

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Objectivity and the community of scholars

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Quantitative research methods:

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censuses, surveys and samples, government statistics

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Qualitative research methods:

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field study, in-depth interviews

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institutions

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a complex social pattern that meets a societal need
Family
Religion
Political System
Criminal Justice
Military
Educational system
Economic System

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Patriarchy:

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is a social system in which the male gender role as the primary authority figure

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survey research

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any measurement procedures that involve asking questions of respondents

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nuclear family

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is a term used to define a family group consisting of a pair of adults and their children

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Cooley: looking glass self

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Society is an interweaving and interworking of mental selves. I imagine your mind and especially what your mind thinks about my mind. I dress my mind before you and expect that you will dress yours before mine. Whoever cannot or will not do this is not properly in the game.”

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primary groups

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Lewis Coser: “Sensitivity to the thought of others, responsiveness to their attitudes, values and judgments--that is the mark of the mature man (or woman) according to Cooley. This can be cultivated and fostered only in the close and intimate associations of the primary group.”

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; Mead: the I and the me

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Mind, self and society
Mind = my communication with myself
Two parts to the self
the “me”—very similar to Cooley’s looking glass self
The “I”—individual and unique part of me, probably in part biological

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Family history: the colonial period

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Patriarchy, Broad range of functions,Nuclear

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homemaker/breadwinner families

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Industrial capitalism and the division of labor by sex
Women as spiritual, men as practical/rational (legal powers, sexuality, voting)
Childhood and the need for nurture
Adolescence as a stage
White immigrant families (peak of immigration in late 19th/early 20th century)

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companionate family

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Less gender separation (e.g., my grandparents decision to sit together in church)
More emphasis on emotional intimacy
Attention to female sexuality, beginning with the middle and upper classes

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invention of adolescence

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Adolescence as a stage in Breadwinner/Homemaker family

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1950s families and changes since then

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Exception to longer trends of the 20th century (age at marriage, % who marry, birth rates, women in the workforce)

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Culture:

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a design for living passed from one generation to the next

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norms

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rules defining expected situations and appropriate behaviors

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Socialization

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1. the process of learning the norms of your culture
2. the process of learning who you are
Families particularly central to this process.

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gender roles

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Gender the culturally elaborated distinction between masculine and feminine… differs across culture and across history

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New Deal programs for poor families

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Social Security Act of 1935
One of its provisions was Aid to Dependent Children (“suitable homes” and “deserving poor”)…
Basically aimed at white widows and their children
Locally administered. In the American south, African Americans were excluded

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1960's The War on Poverty and its provision for poor families

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President Lyndon Johnson: “an all out war” to “abolish poverty in our time. Its provisions included:
Head Start
Food Stamps
Expansion of Aid to Families with Dependent Children

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Temporary Assistance to Needy Families(TANF):

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Five year limits, which many states shortened
Immediate requirements about jobs and job-seeking
Short term education and training
Family Cap: no work exemption and no support for children born to mothers already on welfare
Carrot and stick: Sanctions and set-asides

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Minnesota Family Improvement Program (MFIP)

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Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Project

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We refer to unmarried parents and their children as “fragile families” to underscore that they are families and that they are at greater risk of breaking up and living in poverty than more traditional
families.

The Study consists of interviews with both mothers and fathers at birth and again when children are ages one, three and five, plus in-home assessments of children and their home environments at ages three and five.

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Ford Foundation Fragile Families Study

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This large-scale longitudinal study addresses three areas of great interest to policy makers and community leaders-non-marital childbearing, welfare reform, and the role of fathers-and brings them together in an innovative, integrated framework

the Center is following 5,000 families, from the birth of their children through the preschool years, from cities with different welfare and child support policies and labor market strengths. The project is examining the relationships among child care, maternal employment, parenting practices, and economic factors.

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public policy

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is generally the principled guide to action taken by the administrative or executive branches of the state with regard to a class of issues in a manner consistent with law and institutional customs

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marriage movement

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trying to enforce ppl to get married

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low income budget and its challenges

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fag discourse

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is used primarily as a tool for "policing masculinity" and that women's gender behavior is less closely regulated

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theoretical orientations:

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: functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interactionism

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Risman, Reading 30) Maria Kefalas and Kathryn Edin: Promises I Can Keep, Moynihan Report: " tangled web of pathology

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